Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides his plain talk, the Russians will find many things about Beedle Smith to interest them. Like most of their top leaders, he is a self-made man-he rose from private, never went to the Military Academy or to college. Like many a Russian, he is a rabid chess player. Like a few quiet Russians, he is a Roman Catholic...
Native's Return. In 1932 Andrica talked his boss into a bolder experiment. He began annual pilgrimages along the highways and footpaths of Europe, covering the continent as an editor of a country weekly covers his community, with plenty of names of plain people. Every fall when he came home, hundreds of thousands of Clevelanders went to hear him and see his movies of their relatives in the old country...
...maneuvers. It had not, of course, really reconciled the basic forces in conflict between Great Britain and Russia; the forces were irreconcilable. It was UNO's job to deflect and cushion such forces, prevent them from colliding and exploding into World War III. The London meeting made it plain that the nations, pressed from below by war-sick peoples, had accepted UNO as the place of settlement-at least for the present...
...spoke as no statesman had ever spoken before in international councils. He spoke, and his example made others speak, as though UNO were not a precarious assembly of many nations, but a parliament of respectable and genuine power. He spoke up to the Russians as a great many plain people in pubs and corner drugstores had often wanted to speak. Gasped one European delegate: "My God! We are playing chess, and Bevin is playing darts...
Karl Marx, whose Das Kapital is the Bible of Communism, had visitors. To his grave in London's jampacked Highgate Cemetery came Andrei Vishinsky, at the head of Russia's UNO delegation, and deposited on the bearded prophet's plain stone slab a wreath of lilies and red carnations...