Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge, 41, gave the best and most integrated report. Speaking from the floor of the Senate to crowded galleries, the shrewdly observant Lodge dwelt on matters military, economic and political, leavening his report with some plain facts, bluntly put. Said...
Berlin has made it plain that the Wehrmacht hopes to hold on to the Dnieper Line (see map). In the two weeks which followed the loss of Smolensk, it has yielded only Kremenchug. At some points the front is still as much as 40 miles east of Hitler's defense wall. Yet the Russian pressure is immense. Early this week, most of the bastions of this line-Vitebsk, Mogilev, Gomel, Kiev, Melitopol-were in danger...
...military jurisdiction over 225,000 sq. mi. of North African soil. He established headquarters in the vacated Ècole des Jeunes Filles at Oujda, in French Morocco, a town of 35,000 (less than half of whom are Europeans). Around Jay a sparsely-settled, varied terrain-mountain, desert, plain and seacoast-an excellent practice ground...
...plain that the curtain would rise on Act I-the Foreign Secretaries-in an atmosphere compounded about equally of good will and doubt. The setting of Act II -the Heads of State-would largely be determined as Act I was written...
...growing number of U.S. servicemen and plain citizens who do their best with U.S. comic strips in Latin American newspapers, the office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs has published a guide of Spanish titles. Examples...