Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...however much men might have been concerned with the distant future, the plain problem of the immediate present was victory. The greatest virtue of the Moscow Conference was that its first purpose was to guarantee victory. It had girded with iron the great possible weakness of the Allies. Now, engrossed in direct military cooperation, the United Nations need not concern themselves about a wartime rift in their alliance...
...Baker wives, most of whom have made their way to Cambridge by now . . . . The boys who got amphib are scaring the wits out of everybody by making blood-thirsty Tarzan calls while running around besmudged with burnt cork . . . That white hat which "Admiral" Colby wore while the plain folk marched in garrisons was not the manifestation of rugged individualism. He had misplaced the other job, and had nothing else to wear, it says here . . . thoughts while strolling, as the immortal McIntyre used to write--wonder when Bill Ingram is going to get that gap filled? . . . Altitudinal Donald Dennis has become...
TIME Correspondent Duncan Norton-Taylor, on the bridge of another U.S. ship, was an eyewitness. He cabled: "Five of their ships died in our first onslaught. Others spoke back . . . but soon it was plain they were depending more heavily on another weapon. The frantic enemy was firing torpedo spreads...
...impatience was plain over the TBS ("talk-between-ships") loudspeakers on the bridges of the U.S. ships waiting in the dark. It seemed an unconscionable time before the destroyer, her searchlight still probing, answered: "I am sorry to report it is Five Zero...
Till I make plain the meaning Of all my thousand years...