Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plain to labor leaders, plain to everyone was the noisy nigger in the strike woodpile: Communism in labor's ranks-the old Red policy of fomenting strikes because any kind of labor trouble is good for Communism, the old Red policy which since the beginning of World War II has been reinforced in the U.S. by Nazi cash...
Three Federal officers in plain clothes one day last week shouldered their way into a luxurious suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. To the thin, tall, elderly man who stood inside, wearing a wrinkled pajama coat and a pair of trousers, they said curtly: "Dr. Rieth, you are under arrest...
...produce that spirit which enables a people to bear arms? Once this spirit dominates a people, the will finds a thousand ways, each of which ends with arms!" For those who could not find this spirit, or found it repellent, Americans in their homelier days posed the alternatives in plain English: Root...
...only confirm President Roosevelt's opinion that convoying means shooting, and since according to American statements cargoes of convoyed ships must be regarded as contraband, the introduction of such a convoy system would be not only an unneutral act under international law, but a plain act of war and unprovoked aggression." In other words, if the U.S. convoys, Germany will shoot-and expect the Japanese to shoot...
Month ago Merlin Hall ("Deac") Aylesworth acquired the title of DRAOCCCR-BAR, New Deal for Director of Radio Activities in the Office for Coordination of Commercial & Cultural Relations Between the American Republics. In plain English: chief of the radio sector of the Hemisphere Solidarity campaign...