Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said President Roosevelt, explaining the shift: "We are, I hope, approaching the (period when these [occupied] governments must look forward to the re-establishment of their countries. I think it is wise for us to take up the military side of the restoration problems." The President made it plain that the "military side" (presumably cooperation with the underground, etc.) would henceforth be dominant. Other problems will be handled not by a new Ambassador-Minister, but only by charges d'affaires. Diplomats in London generally cheered. They agreed that the Allied Army's diplomatic record (in North Africa...
...good will and men with schemes to push pondered last week the riddle of the bear that walks like a man. From the wintry fastness of the Russian plain, the bear had reached out to gash a friend. Moscow's Pravda, highest official mouthpiece of the Communist Party, detonated a seven-day wonder by accusing British "personalities" (or "officials": translations varied) of talking peace with Hitler's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
...Nazi propaganda set to work to prove a fatal rift in the fabric of agreement supposedly woven at Teheran, raise again the specter of a Red Europe. Ordinary Russians, taught to believe their press implicitly, now wondered whether Britain was about to betray them. In the U.S. many a plain citizen had his faith in Russia as an ally and as a responsible partner in peace severely shaken...
...book, among them "chopping the throttle" (to slow down abruptly) and dropping the flaps (to turn a tighter circle). He began with all four guns going, finally was reduced to one. He wound up his day, all ammunition spent, scaring off a rocket-carrying Dornier 217 by plain bluff, and then scooted for home...
Attorney General Francis Biddle hailed the indictment as "shutting off one of the worst leaks of strategic materials . . . to the enemy." But what mystified many a plain citizen, as well as financier, was: Why had the Justice Department waited two years to plug the "worst leak...