Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Driving from the east and north on Durove, first of three defense bastions before Smolensk, the Russians captured Izdeshkvo by storm and took several inhabited places in other sectors against the most desperate enemy resistance--a plain indication that the Germans realized the danger to Smolensk...
...thing was plain. From now on, Newton should be allowed to supervise the sessions. There was a bad moment when the M. C. walked off the stage to look for Hawkins and Brown so that all could jam the final number together. Frankie saved the day by just tootling a few notes, and before you knew it, everyone was going full blast. At the conclusion, he got up and started walking off the stage, playing all the time, and everyone followed. It was tremendously effective...
...question of cinemacting's importance in total war. Raising the question was Metro Goldwyn-Mayer, who appealed the i-A draft classification of Mickey Rooney-first such appeal made by the industry. Grounds: he is an essential worker in an essential industry. Rooney's mother made it plain that her son was not doing the appealing himself. "It is true that he is only five feet tall, and has been bothered with heart flutter and high blood pressure," said she, "but Mickey wouldn't try to dodge his classification." Said Mickey: "I'll do whatever Uncle...
Every now & then, plain U.S. citizens get carried away by the superior gold braid of other nations. The U.S. Navy, which to civilian eyes has a fair amount of gold braid of its own, is not immune to such rankophilia. After brooding over the glittering top rank of the British armed forces -13 Field Marshals, ten Admirals of the Fleet, four Marshals of the R.A.F.-Secretary Knox asked Congress to authorize the rank of Admiral of the Fleet for U.S. forces...
...South America last week a new kind of ambassador was delivering a new kind of plain talk to the people-Eric Johnston, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who took off three weeks ago from Miami, has now visited Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile (TIME, March...