Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Talmadge, his manner, as always, that of a great man enduring much for the plain people, stood up, clutching a thick manuscript in one bony hand, started shouting into microphones hooked up to 13 Georgia radio stations. As always, a stooge yelled, "Take off yo' coat. Gene." Talmadge did, showing his red galluses...
China is Waiting. Today China awaits a threatened all-out Japanese drive. Japan has not yet shown her hand. She is playing the same clever game she played before Pearl Harbor, threatening to attack several points at once while concentrating on her real plan. The plain fact seems to be that Allied Intelligence does not know what Japan is going to do next...
...Allies proposed to relieve Rus sia was plain for all to see. Franklin Roosevelt had just sent Major General Dwight David Eisenhower to England to take command of U.S. forces in the European theater. U.S. ground and air troops have been pouring into Britain and Northern Ireland for months. All the indications are that Russia is to be relieved, first by a searing attack from the air, then by a land invasion, if it is still needed when the bombers have finished their work...
...money for too many goods; now the specter of inflation stalks the land because there is (or will be, when the present enormous inventories melt away) too much money to buy too few goods. Ironically, the manner in which that money will be distributed magnifies the problem. For the plain fact is that (outside of military casualties) there are only two major kinds of "suffering" in prospect for consumers: 1) The newly well-paid will not be able to use their pay to buy many of the goods that they have always wanted and never before could afford...
...Washington correspondents voted that Clapper (who had then barely started syndication for Scripps-Howard) was the "most significant, fair and reliable" columnist. Today a majority of his fellows would still probably give Clapper the same award. The quality which wins him such tribute from his colleagues is his plainness, as man and writer, in articulating a plain man's concept of democratic government...