Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strange Hills. For the time being, Japan's plain people were still not mainly concerned with the road to democracy; they worried-like people in the best regulated societies-about the road that would lead them to the 'biggest bowl of rice. In a Tokyo saloon last week Mikizo Kawahara, an unemployed counterman, said: "It's useless to talk to me about democracy and new ideals-get me a job first!" A bearded grocer near by put down his cup of watered sake and nodded: "Life here," he said, "is like trying to do business...
Minutes after Suspense was officially ended, Georgia was on the haunt. In all, more than 2,500 phone calls jammed CBS's Manhattan switchboard. Everyone had the same reasonable question: Whodunit? Apparently the scripters thought they had made it plain: "The Creeper" was the locksmith who had just come to fix Georgia's front door. Why, then, had the TV audience been confused...
...reason stood out plain: the church had plenty of potential ministers among its young men, but it was losing them for lack of training facilities. Last week's meeting was called by the Episcopalians' largest divinity school and one of the first in the country, 125-year-old Virginia Theological Seminary. Since the war, it has been swamped by applications for enrollment. Seven other Episcopal theological seminaries report a similar boom in applications...
From the Revolution on, Pratt thinks, the basis of U.S. military success has been the well-tempered amateur squinting down a rifle barrel. "Don't fire till you can see the whites of their eyes" was plain common sense to colonials facing the parade-ground tactics of the 18th Century Brit ish army; later, as any World War II infantryman who sweated out the world's most thorough rifle instruction in training camp knows, the common sense of the 17703 became doctrine. Pratt leaves it to his publishers, in a jacket blurb, to add that "the national tradition...
...sight view merely assumes that their work had already been done. None of these sketches is exhaustive, but every one is readable, informal history that few armchair tacticians would wish to miss and few professional soldiers could fail to learn from. What will keep Eleven Generals and many a plain reader apart is its inflationary price...