Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thousands of people wrote in from all over the world. Some wanted to buy stock in the project; others to make their reservations early. Merchant mariners galore (mates, plain sailors) asked for jobs aboard the ferries. G.I.s and navy men sent in their qualifications and said they would take any old job. Some writers just wanted to express their admiration...
This Way Out. The plain fact was that the U.S. was still in danger of inflation-until automobiles and refrigerators, men's suits and shotguns and a thousand other items started pouring out of the factories to satisfy the nation's pent-up buying urge and buying capacity...
...plain man had plain words for it. Earnest, uneloquent Clement Attlee had fought in the trenches of the first World War, helped fight the second. Said...
...Russians gave any more naked demonstrations than did Jimmy Byrnes of his intent to use the veto whenever necessary to protect U.S. prerogatives. The vigorous U.S. fight to get three of the six nonpermanent Security Council seats for the New World, two of them for her immediate neighbors, was plain power politics...
...year-old rifleman was a mass of twitching nerves. By Army medical standards, he was a plain NP (neuropsychiatric) case. But by G.I. standards he was a very brave soldier. He doggedly slogged his way through three months of bloody action. By the time he finally collapsed in an Army hospital, he was ready to tell his sorry story of shyness, nervousness, worry. Why had he been such a good soldier? "I forced myself to carry on. All my life I obeyed. I couldn't bring myself to disobey...