Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps our leaders do not trust us plain people enough. Can it be we want to be more vigilant, more self-sacrificing, than they dare ask? Do they mistake groans and grumbles from a soft and noisy minority for a real revolt of the people against rationing and wartime controls? What do they fear? Tumbrils...
When pants are plain, Then Labor will gain...
...Unprepared. It had long been plain that labor, freed of its wartime no-strike pledge, had also cut loose from the Little Steel formula, was ready to move swiftly and decisively to keep its wartime wage rate. It was also plain that Washington was completely unprepared to meet the shock...
...known that the blueprint was no hard & fast plan; everybody would have a chance to make his case. Navy flyers and battleship men alike hoped that the prospect of weapons still to be built would not talk anybody into sinking the fleet or any part of it. Plain citizens who remembered the scrapping of some of the best of the fleet after World War I would agree with them...
...Russians had decided that there was something to be said for the caste system in the "People's Army," after all. Hard on the heels of a non-comradely ruling that plain Russian soldiers must no longer use officers' clubs, the Soviet Government cushioned the lives of Red Army officers with some more line new decrees. Henceforth Soviet officers will get: 1) exemption from all taxes; 2) permanent orderlies to perform all tedious tasks; 3) extra food (some of it free...