Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midway of last week, things began to happen. It was plain that Japan's answer was being given, not in words in Washington, but in troop movements in the Far East. In Tokyo U.S. Ambassador Grew and Foreign Minister Togo were minding their diplomatic Ps & Qs, but Japanese troops were pouring into French Indo-China, threatening the Burma Road...
...getting the answers, from the Near East's sheiks and emirs, its shahs and kings and plain people, Bullitt will have the advantage of his old newspaper training (Philadelphia Public Ledger), his knack for talking easily to new acquaintances, his enthusiasm for discovery...
Last week C.I.O. made plain that it was not planning to give up its fight for growth-not even for the sake of defense. Said Delegate Joseph Cannon, of the distillery workers: "If we give that up, what is the use of fighting Hitler?" Said Murray, talking tough like John L. Lewis...
...Against plain reporters (whose heads are sometimes lopped off with inexplicable suddenness) Publisher McCormick lives as securely insulated as against the noises of the Tribune presses or the people on Michigan Avenue below to whom he supplies the kind of newspaper he thinks they need. ("Of course, the people want this," McCormick says of majority opinion, "but they don't know where it is leading them...
...tamitey." Blizzards "hold sway"; men "sally forth." Even his fascinating meteorological material is doctored with the characteristic cheapening devices of a lecturer who is accustomed to talking down. That the book can succeed at all against such malpractice is a tribute 1) to neatness and effort, 2) to the plain grandeur of the subject. Its literary honors will be few; and its royalties belong, by rights, to thin...