Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staff car rolled to a dockside some where in New Guinea, discharged a four-star passenger. Columns of green-clad U.S. soldiers boarding transports recognized Douglas MacArthur's plain shirt and trousers, braided cap, plump cigar. Brigadier General Julian Cunningham walked over, saluted...
Other echoes rumbled all along the front. In the Dnieper bulge, great tank battles flared up and died down of sheer exhaustion. In the windswept plain west of Kiev, in the woods north of the frozen Pripet Marshes, the front stirred, thundered, quieted. Fearfully, Germans spoke of Russian troops massed thickly along the 300-mile front south of Leningrad...
...Lady Astor and many another listener last week it was plain that Britons are examining the prospects of peace with greater unity and hope than they have had before. It was also plain that the same heady wine was working elsewhere...
...Turks had been suspicious of the Moscow Conference; now they saw their suspicions confirmed. They declared that they would not come in until they knew exactly how they would stand with the U.S.S.R. after the war. They also made it plain that they would need air protection for Istanbul and Ankara, both highly vulnerable to bombing, and military aid in the event of a Nazi blitz from Bulgaria. There matters stood until Teheran...
Such legalistics may have made plain Britons and Americans slightly ill. But these and other hairlines will grow & grow before the first Nazi come to trial...