Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Green Fields, Blue Sky. Terrain and season defined the campaign. The easiest area for attack was the central plain just above and below the vast Pripet Marshes. The two main German drives developed there - one headed for Minsk and Moscow, the other for Kiev and the Ukraine (see map) - over land flat as a billiard table, through fields still too green to be burned, under a sky clear enough for half-blind pilots. The weather would stay fine for three months, within which the Germans intended to attain their objectives...
Many U.S. newspapermen, plain citizens without Communist leanings, have long believed that their union was run by a Red clique, and last week a big enough group got together to make that clique fight for its political life. At the eighth annual convention of the American News paper Guild in Detroit's Book-Cadillac Hotel, the Milton Kaufman-Nat Einhorn-Victor Pasche group, baited as Reds, saved its neck by a few votes, but got only a reprieve till...
...first major tournament of the summer, at the plain but pleasant Berkeley Tennis Club in Orange, N.J., a little, bowlegged Ecuadorian named Francisco ("Pancho") Segura got to the quarterfinals, only to be beaten after putting up a stiff fight against Jack Kramer, sixth-ranking player...
...only 58% of the voters approved of Britain's conduct of the war, 38% definitely did not, which made it quite plain that many Britons were far from satisfied with the work done by the Churchill Government, if not by Mr. Churchill...
...Hall a half-dozen girls paraded with signs: CONVOY HALIFAX BACK TO ENGLAND; HARVARD GIVES A DEGREE TO WAR. It was whispered that at the right moment Harvard radicals planned to release white doves from beneath their gowns and walk out of the commencement. Inside the yard it was plain that they would do nothing of the sort. Harvard's capped-&-gowned seniors lined up respectfully to let a host of guests march past. Looking pale and cool in his black gown was Harvard's most distinguished guest: Lord Halifax...