Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lack of Advice. But if Harry Truman seemed resigned to failure, Secretary of State George Marshall was crisply defiant. Appearing two days later before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, he explained exactly what that "necessary action" should be. Said Marshall in plain, undiplomatic language: "It is fundamental . . .to develop a basis of government [in China] not restricted to a small group and to clean up waste and corruption. But even more important, it must give definite, active consideration to the land problems of the peasantry. . . . This is critical from a purely military point of view...
Back home in Evanston, Ill. she is remembered as plain Gertrude McBrady, a glum girl in blonde braids. But in Paris' plush Maeght Gallery last week, she was redheaded, black-robed Mademoiselle O'Brady, the brilliant American artist...
...Socialist Strunsky liked to call himself a "Tory." He clung to certain "oldfashioned beliefs," like the idea that "parents are a useful thing for children to have; that freedom is a good thing for everybody; that America is a pretty good country for its plain people . . . that the story of the occupation of the American continent is not an exclusive record of graft and plunder and wastage [and] that ,the industrial history of America [is] not entirely a story of company Cossacks riding down coal strikers . . . but also the story of a rising standard of living...
...methods are explained to him, that mere brute force is helpless against the intricacies of interlocking corporate structure. Aside from this scene, the movie has little interest except for some good work by Kirk Douglas and Wendell Corey as Burt's enemies, some spasms of fair melodrama and plain brutality. Lizabeth Scott walks through the show-in a manner presumably intended as alluring-as if she were lying asleep on a vertical...
Month of Stalling. The best - and bitterest - chapter in Lane's book, however, is his detailed reconstruction of the tragic 1944 Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, a story full of confusion at the time, but one that in his telling becomes pathetically plain. On July 29, 1944, a Moscow broadcast urged Warsaw to revolt to hasten the entry of Russian troops, then only ten kilometers away. The underground Polish army, led by General Bor, went into action on Aug. 1. The next day it had two-thirds of Warsaw under control. As the Nazis hit back with savage plane...