Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slot machines now clank in remote service stations. There are few towns so small that a housewife cannot take a pass at the dice for a dime. In Las Vegas and Reno, divorcees, cowhands, tourists and plain citizens crowd plush palaces where roulette wheels whir and stacked silver dollars gleam on green tables. Gamblers are Nevada's new bonanza kings. Wilbur ("Little Caesar") Clark, 37-year-old operator of Las Vegas' gaudy new Monte Carlo Casino, had only $2,200 in 1941. Now he owns a gambling palace, a hotel, four cocktail bars and two cardrooms; is part...
Last week's events in Moscow, London and Washington made it plain that the "United Nations" were simply not ready for a world security conference...
...this week, rumbling over bridges captured by the Airborne, the British were across the Vessel River and, well ahead of schedule, had pushed at least 15 miles into the plain. General Simpson's Americans had broken across the Essen-Berlin autobahn, at one point were 17 miles east of the Rhine...
...plain fact was that the Axis enemies had lost the ability to take the offensive-Germany on her continent, Japan on her ocean. The Allies might be worn down by the strain of war, as Russia and Britain surely were. They might be drawn fiddlestring tight between two wars over vast distances-as the U.S. was. But they were on the offensive. And the longer they could drive themselves to stay on it, the sooner they could write the end of World...
Horse v. Engine. The Third was also within a dozen miles of joining up with the right wing of Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First, whose main forces had broken out in a swift armored drive aimed at the central German plain...