Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Munich branch of the Reich Health Ministry last week added a "Department of Occultism." All fortunetellers, crystal-gazers, palm readers and sundry spiritualists will have to register so the Department may distinguish "dangerous forms of occultism with international connections" from those which may "be useful." In plain language, mediums who do not see Nazi victory in the air will henceforth work for Nazi victory in munitions factories, and those who predict victory will do business with official blessing...
...them as individuals, Germany should be destroyed "utterly and forever as a military power." Winston Churchill's grey advocate and Lord Chancellor, Viscount Simon, promptly made it clear that on this issue the British Government has other views. Said Viscount Simon: "I can only say now in plain terms on behalf of the Government that we agree with Premier Stalin-first, that the Hitlerite state can and should be destroyed, and second, that the whole German people is not, as Dr. Goebbels has been trying to persuade them, thereby doomed to destruction...
British artillery was in position before Médinine. Some of their gun emplacements were on two hillocks, dubbed Elephant Hill and Edinburgh Castle, which stuck up like two pimples in the plain. Others were on the ridges behind, where TIME'S Correspondent Jack Belden also stood and watched one phase of one day's battle. Belden wrote in his notebook...
...yellow-haired Sergeant Ivor Andrews watched 17 German tanks file up a slope, let the first four go by towards another gun crew, knocked out the next three. When Belden visited the battlefield after it was all over, he counted 52 German tanks left on the arid, rock-strewn plain between the Matmata Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea. Some were blackened from fire, some were still splotched with green camouflage and black crosses. Turrets were torn off, fronts were blown in. They were casualties of Rommel's most earnest attempt to hit back at the British Eighth Army since...
...these bitter years-some time in the past few months-the world changed. It is becoming a world anticipating and planning for peace. A generation haunted by depression and war has begun to plan for a future where both will be impossible. In every country the masses of plain people have their own plans for what they want to do after the victory is won. Some of them are reading books and articles. Most of them are talking about the postwar world in their own language. They are the world's two billion people, and in the broad sweep...