Word: plain
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Digging In. Much of that preparation was a matter of just plain digging in. The U.S. was preparing for a gopher existence, if necessary, and the national bestseller was a 32-page Department of Defense pamphlet, The Family Fallout Shelter. Until August, monthly requests for the free booklet had averaged 260,000 copies. But during the next four weeks, 2,400,000 copies were distributed, and in the first half of September, even that rate doubled...
...cold, wet spring of 1945, the Allied Expeditionary Force under General Dwight Eisenhower crossed the Rhine and began the great sweep across the German plain toward juncture with Soviet armies advancing through Poland (see map). On April 12 armored units of Lieut. General William H. Simpson's Ninth U.S. Army reached the Elbe River near Magdeburg and Tangermünde, and thus came within 60 miles of Berlin. At that moment, Marshal Georgy Zhukov's Russian troops were bogged down 35 miles east of the German capital; they had been struggling for two months against the savage opposition...
Tshombe's victory may not last long. Khiari made it plain at a press conference in Ndola that Katanga's "secession is a matter of fact, but it is not legal nor is it a right." Returning to Leopoldville, he told newsmen that he hoped to help "Katanga and the central government to find a peaceful solution, just as we achieved with the central government and the Stanleyville regime" of leftist Vice Premier Antoine Gizenga...
Happy Days (by Samuel Beckett) pursues the playwright's favorite thesis that life is slow death. The setting is a scorched plain, blazing with light. Throughout Act I, Winnie, the so-year-old heroine, is buried up to her waist in a mound of earth; throughout Act II, she is buried up to her neck. So much for action and plot. For subplot, her husband Willie scuttles in and out of a hole behind the mound, and, keeping his back to the audience, leafs through a yellowed newspaper...
...Quincy, invariably took time to investigate the quality of the local manure. The English manure was fine, wrote Adams, "but it is not equal to mine, which I composed of Horse Dung from Bracketts stable in Boston, Marsh Mud from the sea shore and Street Dust, from the Plain at the Foot of Pens hill." The Europeans found him "a Character...