Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plain citizens were dizzy, trying to figure out the "consistency" of U.S. foreign policy: "expediency" toward Vichy, flirting with Giraud, meddling in Argentina, "abstention" in Poland. Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia...
...week's end, the Stettinius statement had roused a mixed reaction in Europe. In a ringing speech, Winston Churchill made the British position pikestaff plain (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Italy, Count Sforza was cautiously grateful for "American generosity"-but he did not get into a new government. Moscow was aloof and silent. U.S.-Soviet relations, however, had never been better...
...three, supervises the production of his magazine with little change from his peacetime routine. Paper rationing has cut Punch's pages to 28 an issue, has limited its circulation to about 100,000. The staff can no longer hold its weekly meetings with favored contributors around the plain deal table that Thackeray called "the mahogany tree," for the old table is safely hidden in the country and the contributors are scattered over the world's battlefronts...
Quick Start. With Flanders came 29 officers, 735 enlisted men, and 9,000 tons of equipment. Next day, while fighting went on in plain view, survey parties, each including six engineer-riflemen, set out to plot the new field. Within 24 hours they had bulldozed enough coral gravel to fill in 600 shell craters, and the first P47 Thunderbolt fighter landed...
...most promising stretch of the picture, as she flinches in terror of groaning shutters and sudden extinctions of the lights, or follows the beckoning of inchoate voices into the swamp, it is as impossible for the audience as for the victim to know what is plain fact, what is the hallucination of a crumbling mind, who if anybody is to be trusted...