Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French rebelled. Their press reflected some but by no means all the popular resentment. General de Gaulle had already made it plain that France intended to be not one of the trusteed but one of the trustees. Now he pointedly announced that France would handle its own empire. Finally, he declined to leave Paris for an aftermath session with President Roosevelt, who had hoped to pause in North Africa on his way home and soothe the General. If Roosevelt wanted to see him, said De Gaulle, the President would have to come to Paris...
...German command did not need a Yalta communiqué to know that the Allies had chosen the place-and probably the time-for the fourth and final ground front: the north German plain. There, perhaps in conjunction with landings from the North Sea, the eastern and western Allies had the same objective: to grind the Wehrmacht between them...
...most of last week the days were fine and there was springlike warmth west of the Cologne plain, where the Germans expect the heaviest blows of U.S. and British power to fall...
Such examples of plain commonsense and good storytelling may be credited in part to the script (by Ranald Mac Dougall and Lester Cole), with its careful attention to such matters as insect bites, the yells of jungle birds, the setting of a grenade trap, the use of plasma and salt and atabrine tablets. But still more credit goes to the veteran director, Raoul Walsh. Objective, Burma! gets pretty long, and you can seldom forget that its soldiers are really just actors; but within the limits possible to fictional war movies, it is about as good as they come...
...week began, the 24th and 38th Divisions of long-faced Major General Charles P. Hall's XI Corps were probing down the coasts of Bataan. The plan was plain, but the Japs could do nothing about it. Hall's men made faster progress by far than had Lieut. General Masaharu Homma's arrogant legions in 1942; one after another, the natural defense lines were passed...