Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fought on the side of The People against The Interests. In 40 years in Washington he had been called many names. Perhaps the most accurate was "radical." His radicalism had mainly consisted of his persistent belief that the U.S. could somehow be made into a better place for the plain man to live...
...Plain Man. The old man was not a great orator; but the U.S. always stopped and listened when he spoke. He was not an impressive figure of a statesman: his baggy, old-fashioned suit was topped by a limp string of bow tie; his droopy eyelids, under bushy brows, made him look perpetually tired. But people always looked at him. An avowed pacifist, he was one of the "little group of willful men" who blocked Woodrow Wilson's 1917 plan to arm the merchant marine, and he also voted against World War I. But he left isolationism back...
...before he died, this plain man and radical saw the monument that will preserve his name. That monument, not merely Norris Dam but the entire Tennessee Valley Authority, is greater than any Pharaoh or any emperor ever...
...week the Germans in Rumania lost the rich oil fields of Ploesti; Constanta, Rumania's chief port on the Black Sea; Bucharest, the "little Paris" of the Balkans. Worst of all, by choosing to fight for the Wallachian plain, Adolf Hitler had lost the better part of 30 divisions -which might otherwise have pulled back to defend Germany proper. Moreover the Russians, now heading for a junction with Marshal Tito's forces in Yugoslavia, threatened to cut off all the remaining Wehrmacht divisions-estimated at 15 to 20-in the southern Balkan peninsula...
Across the hot plain, through dust clouds so thick that headlights were turned on in the daytime, Marshal Rodion Mal-inovsky's men chased German remnants toward the Iron Gate, where the Danube cuts through the Transylvanian Alps. Other Malinovsky forces swarmed to the Danube and the Bulgarian border on a 65-mile front. General Feodor Tolbukhin's army group reached southern Dobruja below Constanta. This territory has been Rumania's (disregarding Hitler's 1940 rearrangements) since 1913; Russia began throwing its weight around in the Balkans by referring to it, in the Moscow communique...