Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plain Civilian. In Spokane, Harvey Churchill, truck driver at the Army air base at Geiger Field, took no chances on having his civilian status misunderstood...
...layman there was one clear and simple item of news: "Freedom of the Air," a high-sounding phrase that has mixed up a lot of plain citizens in their air-thinking, is now dead. Despite its wide touting by Henry Wallace and other quick thinkers, literal "Freedom of the Air" would only be possible if the whole world were under one government. No nation in its right mind now contemplates allowing other nations to fly through its sovereign skies at will...
...much that the Japanese troops had managed to fight, by their own peculiar brand of military osmosis, from the jungles of Burma onto the Manipur plain of India. It was that British troops seemed unable to fold them up now that they were on Indian soil. So, in spite of New Delhi assurances, the spring-legged little invaders seemed a greater threat every day to the Bengal-Assam railway...
...this drive was perfectly plain. In fact, Tokyo announced it to the world itself. Over in China, said Tokyo, Claire Chennault was readying an air attack on the mainland of Japan. It could be stopped only by cutting the railroad. Whatever the Jap's estimate of Chennault's intentions was worth, his estimate of the importance of the Bengal-Assam railway was exaggerated...
Just before Tsouderos resumed office-"until the present crisis passes"-a fact came out which made the whole game plain. Greeks in Greece had just agreed to send a man to talk in Cairo; fears that a Cabinet shuffle would be needed to entice a fighting Greek across the sea were groundless. This week King George was due to fly to Cairo...