Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...southeast. For months now defense workers have been . . . fortifying the Greek coasts and some of the islands. ... In Bulgaria the mountain passes have recently been fortified. . . . [The Nazi] aim in the Balkans must be to defend Rumania for its oil and to prevent a break-through into the great plain of Central Europe. . . . The Germans can hope that the Allies, after exhausting themselves in expensive attacks on the outposts, would have to face a heavy counteroffensive from the air and heavily mechanized armies operating from well prepared and equipped supply bases...
...motive was plain: able-bodied Frenchmen in the Reich (1,250,000 war prisoners plus 1,150,000 Nazi-drafted laborers) will not only toil for the New Order but they will be less likely to join the Allied army of liberation when the day of deliverance comes...
Died. Rudger Clawson, 86, president of the Council of Twelve Apostles of the Latter-day Saints; in his native Salt Lake City. Son of an associate of Mormon Founder Joseph Smith, one of the last who saw Brigham Young, plain, gentle, white-thatched Apostle Clawson served most of a four-year Federal sentence for bigamy committed in 1883. Long an able hierarch, in his lifetime he traveled 576,000 miles on church business...
Submariners jokingly point to the 50% extra pay as their reason for volunteering. But they don't do what they do for money. Pride in their hard service is a big factor. So is plain patriotism-the subs promise quick action. Quicker command for young officers, quicker advancement for enlisted men, are other reasons...
...ceased firing, combat troops turned out to help the Ordnancemen sort and pile the spoils. Usable equipment was repaired and cleaned up in the Ordnance depots, which can fix anything from a field gun to a cookstove. But not all captured materiel was usable. Much of it was just plain junk...