Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made the rights of his fellow men plain to them, chivied them into seizing their freedom, and eventually they tossed him aside because they disagreed with his views on religion. Last week, nearly 150 years later, within a cobblestone's throw of Independence Hall, he was officially tossed aside all over again. A Philadelphia park commission decided that Tom Paine smelled like an atheist, was not 100% acceptable to all Philadelphians. So it refused to allow his admirers to set a statue of him in Fairmount Park. Tom Paine's pamphlets included The Age of Reason ("The sublime...
...Plain fact is that the steel shortage is real, but U.S. steel capacity is still tremendous. The 6,000,000-ton capacity now idle is almost the total capacity of Japan, is double that of Italy, almost one-third as big as Russia's or the British Empire's. The 91,100,000 total U.S. capacity dwarfs to insignificance the 2,000,000 tons allowed by the Gano Dunn report for ammunition (since doubtless considerably increased), the 4,700,000 needed for the canning industry, the 5,000,000 tons asked by the railroads, the 125,000 tons...
...Plain and simple fact is that the whole 1942 wheat crop is as useless as any boondoggle. It is already costing the U.S. Government some $80,000,000 in benefit payments, may soon take $800,000,000 more for price-propping crop loans. But the country could have gotten along all right if not one bushel had been raised...
...Cagney manages to suggest George M. Cohan without carbon-copying the classic trouper. He has the Cohan trick of nodding and winking to express approval, the outthrust jaw, stiff-legged stride, bantam dance routines, side-of-the-mouth singing, the air of likable conceit. For the rest, he remains plain Jimmy Cagney. It is a remarkable performance, possibly Cagney's best, and it makes Yankee Doodle a dandy...
Some of Author White's more "sophisticated" friends make him rather sick: "I feel sick when I find anyone adjusting his mind to the new tyranny which is succeeding abroad. ... I resent the patronizing air of persons who find in my plain belief in freedom a sign of immaturity. If it is boyish to believe that a human being should live free, then I'll gladly arrest my development and let the rest of the world grow up. ... I believe in freedom with the same burning delight, the same faith, the same intense abandon which attended its birth...