Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Columnist Raymond Clapper (whose voice is more the plain man's than the newspaperman's): "Congress has remained a collection of two-cent politicians who could serve well enough in simpler days. But the ignorance and provincialism of Congress renders it incapable of meeting the needs of modern government...
...press, President Quezon said nothing of what his Government-in-exile would do. But it was plain that he considered himself only a temporary visitor. Though his health is frail he knew that, like his friend General MacArthur, he will some day return to his people who are hiding in the hills, to the little, slight-boned, brave men who are standing up, silent, patient, enduring, against...
What the German was after in the Crimea seemed reasonably plain. If he cleared out Kerch, he would find it easier to have another try at Sevastopol, chief base of the Russian Black Sea fleet. And east of Kerch, across only four miles of water, lay the Caucasus and its oil. If the German could get across, he would have something more than the fuel and lubricating oil he bitterly needs. He would also be in a position to lance down into Persia and cut the roads over which U.S. and British supplies are flowing into Russia...
Background for Pain. Washington had not been trying to kid the consumer-although unquestionably few officials could resist a little sugar-coating on hard facts. The plain truth was that nobody had foreseen the awful truth...
...that there was room for improvement in the system, and that the Navy had need of all the best manpower available, without regard to Green Bowlers, was plain...