Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vast plain , of Honan, gaunt Chinese farmers watched the enemy tanks crush their fat grain, watched the enemy horsemen feed their mounts on ripe wheat...
...toiling infantrymen sweated and wriggled through the final stages of their training. Across the pale green of awakening countryside, endless convoys lurched, Bren gun carriers clattered, jeeps buzzed and tanks clanked. Assault troops splashed wearily ashore on countless nameless stony beaches; the thunder of artillery practice on Salisbury Plain mounted toward unbearable climax...
...Partisan Tubs." Dr. Nikolic's favorite weapon was the "Partisan Tubs." Some were plain gasoline tins, placed over fire and filled with lousy clothes and blankets...
...Even those who have been most critical of De Gaulle the man, those who fear that De Gaulle has undemocratic ambitions, see that there is no way out but to accept him and his organization as A Necessary Expedient. It is as plain as day that the more De Gaulle is opposed and ignored by the Anglo-Americans, the more unbending and unyielding De Gaulle & Co. become, and the more of a symbol he becomes in France. Almost everyone agrees that if Roosevelt tempered his obstinacy on the question of De Gaulle, the chances for a successful liberation of France...
Yanks in the Orient let the men of the Rescue Squadron speak for themselves. There were no dramatics, no suspense. But the plain voices of U.S. airmen doing a job had impressive authenticity...