Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cleveland: "It's going to be a long war. We will really hit our stride in about a year's time. . . . Our two-ocean Navy is not yet in service. The smaller ships for it will begin to come into service around Thanksgiving or Christmas. The plain fact is we haven't the tools. Some of our critics would have us do everything everywhere all at once. It can't be done with what we have to work with...
...charge was serious: draft evasion. But the defendant was neither worried nor penitent: he was just plain mad. Explained Hollywood Studio Worker John Robinson Baer to a U.S. Commissioner last week...
...truth is in plain old Texas language that the American people finally, and definitely, have their bellies full of this New Deal Communist conglomeration and all their whang-brained fanatical fancies...
...future that matters. ... I think we shall find that the division, though hinging upon our future foreign policy ... is the progressives against the reactionaries all over again. ... If you are a reactionary at home, you are most likely to be an isolationist abroad. ... If you distrust the plain people in this country, you will certainly distrust them in Russia. High-tariff protectionism, hatred of social reforms, appeasement, isolationism, advocacy of a strictly military war and fear of a people's peace all go together in one package...
...natural choice for first president. She takes her job seriously, claims that production has jumped 60% since the union signed its first agreement. She also feels qualified to give advice to women just entering war jobs: "Forget the formalities of Mr. and Mrs. and Miss and be just plain Mary and Bob. Women should still wear makeup and look feminine, but above all be a good listener to a man's troubles and a comrade. It will carry their respect, admiration and cooperation...