Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times, which opposed Term III, this week declared for Term IV-"with deep reluctance and strong misgivings, and solely as being justified by the alternatives actually presented to us in a year of war and crises." But, added the Times "The great prestige and personal following among the plain peoples of the world which [Franklin Roosevelt] has won with his war leadership might easily prove in itself to be one of the most important cohesive forces binding together a new world organization in its first experimental years...
...have an other Saint-LÔ. The West Wall break will have to be vastly widened before tanks can be rocketed through to burst out toward Cologne and Dusseldorf, Ike Eisenhower may have to achieve other breaks or fight around the northern flank on to the north German plain before he can break his tanks loose. For the time. Hodges' First was in the best position to bring about that situation. But only history would tell whether the First's drive in the Aachen sector would be written down as a diversion or the main and decisive effort...
...have impressed George Marshall, who is a hard man to impress. In 1929 (when the Army was at one of its lowest points in men and money) George Marshall was a lieutenant colonel, the assistant commandant of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga. Two majors impressed him there: plain, lanky Omar Bradley and ramrod-straight, studious Courtney Hodges. The three...
Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army, driving north from Rumania, had already driven out onto the Hungarian plain. Last week, crumpling paper-thin Hungarian opposition, it reached the only water barrier before Budapest and the Danube - the Tisza River. With hardly a pause, the Russians crossed it 50 miles from Budapest, had a clear road ahead to the capital, where Nazis were already beginning to clear...
Factors involved in these and training accidents included bad weather, youthful recklessness, carelessness and plain dumb flying-enemies against which the A.A.F. Office of Flying Safely has waged a long, persistent campaign, probing crackups, preaching sermons, dinning lessons. This is wastage which the A.A.F. has tried to cut down - even by court-martialing of fenders against prudence - and with some success. High as it was, the accident rate in August 1944 was less than half what it was in the confused December of 1941. Considering the wartime speedup, plus the added toughness of training, it was probably not notably...