Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rowdies, the Storm Troopers, the policemen among them could easily see a connection between themselves and the charges against them. But Alfred Rosenberg could protest that he was just a quiet philosopher, and Julius Streicher a plain newspaper editor, and Joachim von Ribbentrop a diplomat who served his country...
...Conservatives' Central Council he made the issue splendidly plain. Socialism now was not a radical specter with which to frighten commonsensical Britons at election time; it must be presented now as a bureaucratic barrier between Britons and the better life they wanted...
...qualities that makes Sherrod a great war reporter was revealed when he had a chance to go ashore on the lethal beach at Iwo Jima. The first night of the invasion a colleague urged him: "I wouldn't go there, if I were you. It's plain foolishness. The Nips are going to open up with everything they've got to impart." Writes Sherrod: "I looked down into the faces of the men in the boat, and I saw written on them the same fear that gripped at my guts. I knew these men could not stay...
This much was plain: 1) the old Right was smashed; 2) the old Left had not triumphed; 3) the Center, despised and declining between the wars, had mightily revived; it had succeeded the Right and at the same time had cut deeply into the Left's popular support...
...Europe's plain people were trying to find a 20th-century way of expressing Europe's peculiar contribution to civilization-the dignity and worth of the individual...