Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hills were sounding a somber song of frustration for the enemy. Supported by infantry that had been heavily bombed on its way to the front, the Germans continued their efforts to break through until night fell. . . . "Broken guns and burned-out tanks were strewn across the sandy plain and the knobby hills. The ground was dotted with the bodies of men. . . . By this morning the fighting had died down...
...unknown to him, just as he liked best to read diaries and memoirs, infinitely more than fiction or history." He had "the Slav love for long, intimate talk." They used to sit by the fire "until 2 or 3 in the morning, sipping whiskey, which he always took with plain water, advising me never to take soda, as it hardens arteries...
Rotten Compromise. Not so plain was the possibility that Goebbels was sending out a peace feeler in double talk. In fact his speech, if taken at face value, specifically rejected any interest in peace without German victory. He called upon the Germans to prepare for a counteroffensive in Russia this year, and declared...
...conservationists' remedy for the surpluses is as plain as the nose on a moose's face: let the Government release a modest amount of ammunition to hunters (dealers' shelves are now bone-bare). They point out that such hunting is not only necessary to maintain wildlife population at an optimum level, but also taps a potential food supply of more than one-quarter billion pounds of meat-plus feathers...
...Army has its own plan for educating medical students. The American Association of Medical Colleges does not like that plan a bit. Last week, meeting in Chicago, they said so, in plain terms. The Army proposes only 15 months of super-condensed premedical study before shoving students into medical schools. At present over 98% of U.S. medical students have had at least three years of college preparation. The Army's "return to the standards of premedical education of 40 years ago," the A.A.M.C. charged, will produce second-rate doctors and "a lowering of the quality of medical care...