Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had been thrown back at the northern end of the Mareth Line. In a 15-mile-wide gap between the Matmata Mountains and the seashore, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had stopped him cold and he had backed up, leaving the plain strewn with British dead around the hell of the Wadi Zigzau (see p. 17). It appeared that Montgomery had been stalled. It only appeared...
...plain-spoken colloquy turned up on The Army Hour (NBC, Sun., 3:30-4:30 p.m.). The "pretty" weapon was a mean-looking steel blade about eight inches long, forged out of the fast disappearing horse shoes of the cavalry. Most U.S. cavalry men have these gougers. They are handy for infighting...
...Plain facts like this are one good reason why more than 3,000,000 U.S. radio homes tune in The Army Hour on Sunday after noons. The show has the authority of a headquarters communique. It ignores ho kum, heroics, gags. One year old this week, it has given the home front a pretty good idea of how the Army has been put together, how it uses its matériel...
...After watching the Eighth Army knock out 52 German tanks in twelve hours TIME Correspondent Jack Belden wrote: "Tanks! How futile they appear face to face with these ambush-emplaced guns. Like papier máché boxes they are strewn across the Médinine plain...
...Sodality regarded the serenading of Boston belles as one of its handsomest traditions. Lantern-lit expeditions started from Porter's Tavern in North Cambridge, ended in musical vigils in Brattle Street, Brookline, Jamaica Plain and Beacon Hill. Legend says one session ended in a musical salute to a Harvard president's daughter while she was in labor pains...