Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ground, High Ground. This week the beachhead thundered in one of the toughest battles U.S. troops and their British allies have yet fought. They were still on the ground they had taken in the first few days, a low plain criss-crossed with creeks and drainage ditches where front-line infantrymen had to take cover in waist-deep water from German fire...
Jerry held the high ground inland from the coastal plain. If he had not been there in force when the invaders landed, he had quickly and cleverly redisposed himself. Now, looking down on the restricted area (eight miles deep, 14 miles long) where the Allies had landed six divisions plus armored force, he hammered the invaders...
...Ally. As Allied strategists conferred, Tokyo also had a decision to make. It should have been plain to the enemy last week that he has no clear hope of keeping the Allies from battering their way to the Philippines, even if he sends his reluctant, outgunned fleet out to fight. But he has distance between him and ruin. Geography is still his ally...
...good many ordinary citizens, besides special interests, suspicious outsiders and plain old-fashioned isolationists, may fear that the new U.S. policy towards foreign oil smacks dangerously of imperialism, and hope that the U.S. can remain self-sufficient forever. But Harold Ickes spoke for the U.S. last week-and mildly, for him: "It would be imprudent to gamble the future of the nation in such a speculation...
...failure. From his life with his mother he would seem to have gotten not only an abiding detestation for the beautiful per se, the noble emotion nobly expressed, but also his almost corybantic intelligence. From Solomon Sturges, on the other hand, Preston may have derived his exaggerated respect for plain success, which leaves him no patience towards artists of integrity who fail at the box office. The combination might explain his matchless skill in producing some of the most intoxicating bits of nihilism the screen has known, but always at the expense of a larger excellence...