Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...income-tax relief for the plain citizen; considerable tax relief for big business, which will be ineffective in warding off a collapse...
...perfectly plain that General Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander was still striving mightily to destroy them. He could be balked only if the Germans could somehow get back to manned and prepared positions where they could stop, regroup and get back into the fight...
...German right was scrambling up the Italian boot so rapidly that the pursuing Allies-making 15 miles a day along the flat Tyrrhenian coastal plain-had trouble keeping contact. The German center in the hills and the left along the Adriatic, falling back more slowly, faced dire peril. Through the flagging right the Allies might knife suddenly eastward, surround the rest of the Germans...
...Thief of Bagdad pictured the adventures of Sabu. At the U.S. Army Air Forces' new bomber bases in western Russia (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), G.I. Joe chummed up with G.I. Ivan. U.S. Businessman Eric Johnston continued to buzz around the Soviet Union, impress his hosts with his smoothly plain talk (see BUSINESS). At the level where Russians, Britons and Americans actually met, international relations were of the best...
...about Dr. Corydon Wassell (rhymes with throstle). Dr. Wassell was a plain Arkansas country doctor who went as a medical missionary to China, later joined the U.S. Naval Reserve. He was put in charge of wounded men from the shattered cruisers Marblehead and Houston, which got to Java just ahead of the Japs. Dr. Wassell stowed his casualties in an inland hospital...