Word: man-in-the-street
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...daily spiritual reading for millions of Hindus, from man-in-the-street to monk. It forms a part of the 2,000-year-old Mahābhārata (Greater India). The Bhagavad Gitā comprises 18 chapters of the Mahābhārata, takes the form of a dialogue between Sri Krishna, also a manifestation of God, and Arjuna, an Indian prince...
...first time the Russian man-in-the-street knew what Voronov looked like. One photograph showed him receiving his medal from small, bearded President Mikhail Kalinin, and smiling self-consciously, like a boy in his first long pants. Another showed him questioning beaten Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus in a bare room near Stalingrad. On Moscow's Kuznetsky Most, an enterprising art gallery exhibited his portrait in oil-blue eyes, bulbous nose, big, friendly mouth, heavy jowls...
Even to Japan's befuddled man-in-the-street it was plain: the punishment did not fit the crime. Seemingly the two chief strategists were penalized less for Truk than for the bankruptcy of their strategy of an impenetrable sea perimeter...
...Army and Navy could no longer gloss over or glorify defeats at Attu, Kiska, the Solomons, Tarawa, Kwajalein and Truk. Suddenly they had emerged as stages in a U.S. strategical plan for which Japan had as yet found no defensive answer. Even the man-in-the-street now knew: the crisis in the Pacific approached...
...crossed the borders of two prewar states (Poland, Estonia). In one week it had scored four spectacular victories. For the Russian man-in-the-street, pobeda-victory-was in the wintry...