Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japanese tanks scooted along the dusty country roads like beetles. Behind them came cavalry columns, motorized troops, supply trains, artillery. The dust they raised made it plain that this was no usual spring raid. This time it was a full-scale offensive, and it seemed to fit snugly into the Tokyo pattern of global...
...line against pressure from the west, the Japanese seemed also to be building a defense belt beyond the railroad. There was a worse, though still remote possibility: from Loyang, the Japanese might try to push on westward through the famed Tungkwan mountain pass, spill into the loess plain of Shansi. Then even China's truck roads to Russia would be in peril...
Seven minutes later, in the bare, plain registry room, livened only by carnations on the table, Kathleen became the Marchioness of Hartington. A man named Stream performed the ceremony. After wards the Cavendishes and the Kennedys kept their counsel. But the day before the wedding Kathleen's mother, ill in a Boston hospital, sent out word that she was "too sick to discuss the marriage." If Lord Hartington succeeds to the title, becomes the 11th Duke of Devon shire, his Duchess will find herself the Mistress of the Royal Robes, first lady In waiting to the Queen. The Queen...
Pots, Chamber, plain...
...there, high in the sky . . . and yet part of it all, were plain Americans incongruously away from home. ... It seemed terribly dramatic that we should be there at all amid that darkening beauty so far away and so foreign and so old. It was ... a moment of overpowering beauty, of the surge of a marching world, of the relentlessness of our own fate. It made you want...