Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia desperately needs a second front; Germany mortally dreads it. These plain truths became plainer still as the Battle for Kharkov petered...
...first passed close by a passenger-jammed harbor ferry, periscope and conning tower in plain sight. Depth charges jarred the Sydney waterfront. A communique from General MacArthur's headquarters announced that all three of the midgets had been destroyed, that Allied losses were limited to the damaging of one insignificant harbor vessel...
Said Herbert Hoover: "We must start our thinking with a disagreeable, cold, hard fact. That is, the economic measures necessary to win total war are just plain Fascist economics. . . . We want to so design our actions that these Fascist economic measures are not frozen into American life...
Correspondent Floyd said he had been slow to catch on to the main reason for optimistic headlines. "Now I know what it is. They write the heads to sell the papers." He did not mention that part of the reason was plain press ignorance of military matters...
...rehabilitate" an artist who has been a favorite of plain people for four centuries is not so silly as it may sound. That is what the Oxford University Press has undertaken to do for Raphael. Its means is a new volume of its Phaidon series. The Paintings of Raphael ($4.50), just shipped to the U.S. (the present book of reproductions was published last winter in England). The prejudice which it seeks to correct has existed for many years among critics and criticasters in rebellion against the painter of the famous, widely and often ruinously reproduced Sistine Madonna...