Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain fact was that non-fraternization was sound in purpose, unenforceable in practice. Threats, fines ($65 for enlisted men), simply did not work...
Marine Lieut. General Roy S. Geiger quoted a captured Japanese captain: "The overwhelming equipment and fighting spirit of the Americans are such that any Japanese who thought he had a chance to win this war was just a plain, damned fool...
...freshly dug grave, enlisted men lifted the plain grey coffin from the ambulance and laid it against a bank of flowers on green camouflage wire. High-ranking officers, led by Marine Lieut. General Roy S. Geiger, stood at attention while the brief service was read. The melancholy notes of taps floated over nearby Hagushi Beach, where General Buckner's men had swarmed ashore on Easter morning. Then his body was lowered into the ground, to rest in honor with the other thousands who had died to win Okinawa...
...McGraw-managed internecine wars packed the parks with cash customers, especially the Polo Grounds when the Brooklyn Dodgers were there. And whenever McGraw led his Christy Mathewsons and Frankie Frischs into Brooklyn, he always made it plain that his club was on a slumming party. By & large, the Giants beat the Dodgers' brains out in those days...
...life, when not required by the plot or for proper characterization, will not be shown.") Under its provisions, the 28 member-companies of M.P.P.D.A. consult the Hays Office on every step in the making of a picture, from the purchase of a story idea to exhibition. If critics com plain that such prohibitions result in a childishly unrealistic portrayal of American life, cinemen reply that political censors would probably distort the picture even more...