Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weary Fifth's infantry had fought across one of Italy's most famous battlegrounds. Here, in the damp autumn of 1860, bearded Giuseppe Garibaldi, poncho-clad and kerchief around his brow, had walked among his ragged redshirts, crying, "Courage! Courage!" Here, on the Capuan plain, he had beaten the Bourbon King of Naples and advanced Italy a long step toward liberation and unity...
Trial Balance. If Badoglio's cobelligerent Italy was a military plus and an economic minus, politically it was a plain enigma. In declaring war against Germany, Badoglio said that representatives of all political parties will be asked to participate in the Government. But liberal Count Carlo Sforza, on the eve of entering Italy, was still saying he could not enter a Cabinet headed by Badoglio...
Editor Parker's own loose writing made a field day for World-Telegram copy-readers. They changed "Why 'the month of?" to plain "Why?", substituted "conciseness" for "loose word consciousness," struck out some phrases altogether. When they had finished, "Deac" Parker's 185-word directive had been trimmed and tightened to 96 words...
...over the plain twelve of our B-25s unloaded their bombs on a German concentration, and there, too, smoke billowed up, black and grey. That was our imitation of nature. Ten minutes later the bombers passed over our heads and two of the escorting fighters came down and 'buzzed' the crater of Vesuvius. We envied them that bird's-eye view. For us there was nothing but to toil up afoot...
...back we ran, thanking our stars for our steel helmets and casting contemptuous glances out toward the Neapolitan plain, where puny bombs and shells still were bursting. It seems we still have a lot to learn about destructive forces...