Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Omar Bradley, who is no orator, ended with a plain promise that had the ring of more than oratory: "I will see you on the beaches...
Brother's Advice. Pokryshkin's mother still lives in Novosibirsk, with the youngest of her four sons. She is a plain old peasant woman, proud of her sons. Recently she wrote to Alexander: "Your brother [also an airman] wants to shift to your unit." Replied Alexander: "Let him prove his mettle...
...Cover) Off the wet rocks where the seals bark and the tides rip, a rendezvous with a new land this week awaited a big grey ship, a plain man in an austere suit, and a motherly woman with friendly eyes. Under the high, tense arc of Golden Gate Bridge, John Curtin, Labor Leader and Prime Minister of Australia, and his wife Elsie would be getting their first view of the U.S. where it looks the most like home. It had been late summer three weeks ago as their ship passed under Sydney's great bridge and between...
...London, awaiting the first wartime meeting of Dominion Prime Ministers with almost as much interest as the invasion, there was much speculation as to how "Honest Jack" would stack against the plain & fancy pressures he would find in Britain. Well did the men of politics recall the strange coincidence that Australian First Ministers who visit London while in office usually soon find themselves out of a job. Australians, they knew, liked their politicians plain, were quick to toss a man bemused by pomp & circumstance...
...heard some plain talk last week on reconversion. It came from War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes in a speech before the Academy of Political Science in Manhattan. His most significant point: the harsh realities are at hand; big war plants are going to close down; in the next 20 months war production will be cut back some $16,750,000,000 at least; another $1,402,000,000 will be slashed from the spare parts programs of the Army & Navy by the end of this year. Then Assistant President Byrnes warned...