Word: plainful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Present. But that was in the future. For the moment the battle was still joined on the Hungarian plain, its fields of yellow pumpkins punctuated by small lakes and farm buildings. Persistent rain had made the kind of mud that even stumped bullocks. Infantrymen were all but swimming in the thick goo and tanks were helplessly stalled. Nevertheless the Russians slogged on past the Tisa, past the abandoned German tanks and trucks littering the plains, and on toward the north...
...wheel over to envelop the city from three sides, pounce down on Pest. Buda was in danger from a Russian force which was reported to have crossed the Danube far south in Yugoslavia, begun a march north on the west bank of the river. And northwest from Budapest the plain is flat...
...Italy's Romagna region, where Benito Mussolini first preached socialism, and only ten miles from where he was born. Last week it became the first important capture in Italy in more than seven weeks. With it into Allied hands passed the first airfield in the northern Italian plain, soon to be cleared of its battle litter of smashed tanks, dead horses...
They began when the Red Army, having swept up most of southeastern Europe, began to roll across the Alföld, the vast Hungarian plain, toward Budapest. Aged (76) Regent Admiral Nicholas Horthy had asked the Allies for an armistice. Thereupon Major Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian Nazi leader, took over the Government. The Germans took over Horthy, carried him off to Germany, together with Hungary's national gold reserve of 80,000,000 pengö ($27,500,000). But the Hungarian peace delegation had already flown to Moscow...
...making these sweeping recommendations and accusations, Harvard's president made it plain that he did not feel that the nation's school system had been totally ineffective: "We have today in action on many fronts," said President Conant, "millions of young men who are graduates of our public high schools. They developed in their schooling the quality most necessary in modern times--an ability to change the aim as the target moves...