Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quick to cash in on a chance to straighten the critical northern end of the line (which faces Germany's vulnerable northern plain), Montgomery's Twenty-first Army Group pressed them savagely, hurling British, Canadian, Polish and U.S. troops into the Nazi rear guards...
Before the Snows. The Russians waited four weeks on the Hungarian plain until they had linked up supply lines with the Polish front. When the attack came, the Germans could do little to break it on the rolling wheatland before the capital. Pest, on the east bank of the Danube, was immediately doomed...
...first landing, in Kent and Sussex on England's southeastern tip. sucked London's defenders down to battle. Then came the second attack, to the west, in the Portland and Weymouth area of Dorset. German armor poured quickly through the inviting flats up to the rolling Salisbury Plain and the Cotswolds, then swerved southeastward to take London from the rear. In the final stages the last British remnants in North Wales were cleaned up completing the occupation of England...
...first time in history that anyone as young as Jill Poole had even attempted a Stedman Caters or a Plain Bob Royal, let alone anything so ambitious and exhausting as a whole Cambridge Surprise Maximus. As Jill descended, fresh and glowing, from the belfry, the campanologists gave her a solemn nod of approval. She had qualified as an expert in Britain's ancient and honored profession of change ringing...
...changes over a period of twelve hours. But such feats are rare because of the enormous physical strain. There are four main methods of change ringing (differences are chiefly in the choice of the sequence of notes and combinations). To campanologists they are known as the 1) Grandsire, 2) Plain Bob, 3) Treble Bob and 4) Stedman. Alterations in the order of changes are indicated during the performance by one of the ringers, who acts as conductor...