Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where and How? Throughout the anti-Axis world, the answering cry rose: Take the offensive; defense will lose the war. In military councils, in the press, among the plain people whose world was threatened, offensive ideas flowered...
...little people are quite willing to see the Bill of Rights in abeyance, Congress in limbo, themselves regimented, man, woman and child, for all-out effort toward all-out Victory. In plain words, the little people are fighting...
...plain that MacArthur had gambled on disrupting Japanese plans for an all-out offensive. He might even have captured maps and orders detailing the attack plan. He was missing no tricks. He even struck behind the Jap lines at civilian morale by authorizing expenditure through a Civilian Emergency Administration of $5,000,000 for relief of Filipino soldier and civilian victims of the Jap onslaught...
...result of this maneuver was in doubt at week's end (the German High Command called the report of the encirclement "plain nonsense"). Elsewhere the Red Army's anniversary push met stiffening resistance. A second Russian pincer, laid around Dorogobuzh in the central sector, had so far failed to close on another Nazi Army. In "a southern sector" Russia conceded a German wedge of 24 square miles into the Russian line...
Second big college to give up intercollegiate football in recent years, N.Y.U., unlike the University of Chicago, is stepping out because of plain economic necessity. Explained Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase: "For the past two years football has been conducted at a considerable deficit and the university cannot retain the sport any further under the uncertain conditions that prevail...