Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nowhere in the democratic world were there signs of imagination or just plain capacity to match the mad audacity of Hitler. The U.S., like a man coming out of an opium dream, had barely waked up to the knowledge that it could not count on anybody else to fight its battles, that it had to achieve its own survival...
...seize Africa (see p. jo). Nobody was clairvoyant enough to visualize all the possibilities, but one thing was clear. The U.S. could not make separate decisions in the Atlantic and the Pacific. The war in the East and the war in the West were one. It was now plain that the U.S. could count on no other country to do her fighting for her. Henceforth the U.S. would have to decide and act for herself...
...obliquely last week to increasing pressure for a new expeditionary force. The reply: 36 pages of dispatches by General the Viscount Gort, sent while he was achieving the "Miracle of Dunkirk" in May 1940. There was no trace of the eloquence of the Dunkirk battleground in his reports, only plain speaking with a touch of understatement. > "It was clear from the outset that the ascendancy in equipment which the enemy possessed played a great part in the operations." Germany concentrated at least ten Panzer divisions against the B.E.F., threw five of them at the British rear defenses, and the British...
...Plain Mr. President, by Dwight Irving Cooke, for the Cavalcade of America. Washington on his coach ride from Mount Vernon to Manhattan, with Revolutionary War episodes fading in. Effective...
...Germany's Ambassador to the U.S. in World War I. A U.S. citizen since 1939, when she made a quick trip to America to regain her citizenship after 52 years, she answered a reporter who asked whether she spoke English: "You go to hell! I'm plain Mrs. Bernstorff. I'm no Countess any longer and you can drop the von, too. This is America and we don't go in for that title stuff. ... I have come home...