Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans claimed they had cupped two armies. The Red Fleet, in fairly good control of the Black Sea, evacuated men by sea. "A new Dunkirk," said the Germans. "Another Tobruk," suggested the British. But Russia's jingoistic, paprika-tongued spokesman Solomon A. Lozovsky, begged to differ. "It is plain and simple Odessa,"he asserted...
...country is very striking-rather like Salisbury Plain, only with very large patches of ten-foot-high scrub and a certain amount of forest. The Russians are unusually good at concealment. You would go along a patch of scrub and just catch something out of the corner of your eye, then find it full of men and stuff completely hidden from view...
...Republic, famed as a fence-sitting liberal sheet, placarded its cover: FOR A DECLARATION OF WAR, devoted four pleading pages to the argument: "It is plain in this midsummer the United States has reached the opportunity for a great decision, which may never come again." Denying it had ever been "absolutist in pacifism," the New Republic added: "We were right to hesitate at first. . . . But now we do understand. ... If it is our war enough so that we must pour our material wealth into the scales on one side only, then it is our war to fight as well...
Last week the strength of the Army was 1,545,400 officers and men. In a year it had grown more than fivefold. In its growth there had been mistakes, some unavoidable, some forced by a wavering Congress, some plain results of stupidity. But as of last week the Army was well-housed. From the beginning it had been well-fed. For its training-far from complete and still hampered by shortages of equipment-it is getting more practical field exercises than any U.S. Army ever had before. Its physical condition is superb. Some of its divisions are readier...
Columnist F(ranklin) P(ierce) A(dams)-better known to plain citizens as the beaky, saturnine wit of Information Please-one day last week kept a rendezvous with his boss, New York Post Editor Ted Thackrey, to talk things over. "Well," asked F. P. A., "am I fired?" Editor Thackrey suggested a less callous formulation: F. P. A. might prefer to resign. But F. P. A. preferred to be fired...