Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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None of Jimmy's fellow workers heard those words. Jimmy's widow had made it plain she did not want them at the funeral. "If only Jimmy had not bottled it all up inside him," she said. "If only he had answered them back and stood up for himself. That was his failing. He could never stand trouble...
President Getulio Vargas, in a sharp outburst of nationalism last week, denounced Brazil's foreign-owned utility companies for not providing enough cheap electric power to carry out the country's industrial development. By plain implication, he threatened them with expropriation unless they backed his grandiose plan for electrifying the whole vast country under government direction...
Giving the German generals their due, Wheeler-Bennett makes plain that they did not want World War II, rightly fearing the double ruin of Germany and their caste. Ironically, Hitler ranted at them as pacifists as late as 1941 on the Eastern Front: "Before I became Chancellor, I thought the general staff was like a mastiff which had to be held tight by the collar . . . Since then ... it has consistently tried to impede every action that I have thought necessary . . . It is I who have always had to goad on this mastiff...
...politician is willing to have his nation considered expendable, NATO's generals have been as signed to protect that lush piece of real estate, Western Europe, as long and effectively as possible. Ideally, SHAPE thinks of defense as far east as possible. But until recently, at least, the plain fact has been that in event of attack, NATO's first line of defense would have to be the west bank of the Rhine. However, recent developments in superweapons have made the idea of "forward strategy" seem more feasible (assuming that some day German troops are added to NATO...
...decision to retire at 58 had been made after the war, when she came out of semi-retirement in Norway to return to opera and the world's concert stages. She wanted to quit while she was still in top voice, she said. Besides, she was just plain tired of public life. She wanted to retire to her big house in Kristiansand, on the southern coast of Norway, and sing only when she felt like...