Word: plainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia desperately needs a second front; Germany mortally dreads it. These plain truths became plainer still as the Battle for Kharkov petered...
That most Britons want a second front this year seemed plainer than ever last week. It seemed plainer, too, that they think there is too much crusty caution, inefficiency and politicking in their coalition Government. Thanks to the wartime political truce, Parliamentary party lines have been virtually unchanged since before Munich...
Behind the elaborate wording of the rejections the political bitterness and rivalry for local power between the Congress and the Moslem League was plainer than ever. There were rumors that Pandit Nehru had led a Congress minority which favored accepting Britain's compromise, that the Moslem League had been ready to accept until the Congress decided to reject. Sir Stafford implied as much when he said : "Negotiations have been pro longed in the case of the Congress only." Though his great mission had failed, it was likely that his three weeks in India, and his account of them...
Labor members made no effort to hide their delight. Industrialist members, stunned by the President's legerdemain (some privately characterized his action in plainer language), finally gathered wits and declared: "[We] accept the President's direction. ..." Stating their conviction that the closed shop was "the most highly controversial and emotional question in industrial relations today," they therefore appealed to labor, in effect, not to press the issue while...
...that the mainland of peace was only a small island. It might be that what he hoped was that the Northwest Passage to the future was only an arm of the Hudson. But last week it was plain that the U. S. was sailing according to his chart, plainer still that his confidence in it was unshaken...