Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Raymond Clapper, plainspeaking, widely read, plain man's columnist who was killed in a plane crash during the invasion of the Marshalls a year ago, was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart by the U.S. Navy, which cited him as a "brilliant journalist" who died in "gallant company and in a worthy cause...
...books. Few terrible things happened in the quiet villages of Bilignin and Culoz, where she lived for four years before returning to liberated Paris. But Miss Stein noticed and pondered almost everything that did happen. Though more lucid than usual, her peculiar prose will probably still baffle most plain readers...
...week's end there were other great events: the flag-raising on Corregidor, the renewed air blows at Tokyo, and the battering push toward the plain of Cologne (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). But Iwo held top place in the minds and hearts of Americans. Henceforth, Iwo would be a place name in U.S. history to rank with Valley Forge, Gettysburg and Tarawa. Few in this generation would ever forget Iwo's shifting black sands, or the mind's images of charging marines, or the sculptured picture of Old Glory rising atop Mount Suribachi...
...First Canadian Army had taken Goch, and was throwing in an armored attack behind a five-hour artillery barrage. Between Crerar and Simpson, the British Second Army was waiting to jump off. Field Marshal von Rundstedt could hardly afford to weaken any of these sectors to strengthen the Cologne plain...
...Merrill goes back to sea. Captain Miller's go-ahead stems from the fight of press-conscious Navy Secretary James Forrestal (a -spectator at Iwo Jima last week) to loosen the tongues of the Navy's tight-lipped top admirals. Secretary Forrestal has made it plain that the Navy must make friends with its employer, the U.S. people...