Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debacle of the London conference; the grim, plain, unheeded words of our scientists regarding the future of the atomic bomb; the President's absurd advocacy of universal peacetime, military conscription; the stupid reliance of our military leaders on outworn techniques of warfare; the tragic lack of statesmanship, realism and vision on the part of the world's government leaders in spite of the obvious desire of the world's peoples for a genuine peace and not an armed and jittery truce-all these portents mean but one thing: that the Third World War is in the making...
...important it will be for all GOPolitical hopefuls to reckon with Harold Stassen became obvious last week when the ex-Minnesota Governor shed his Navy captain's stripes and became plain Citizen Stassen...
...middleaged, roly-poly, red-haired Italian is successfully preaching the gospel of individualism. His message: the future belongs not to the politicians but to uomo qualunque (the common man). Last week a stream of converts-horny-handed artisans, lacquered Army officers, silk-stockinged girls, broad-veiled nuns, clerks and plain common men- were beating a path up a back street of Rome to the house of the prophet...
...should fortify in every way our special and friendly connections with the United States." Bevin on Russia. Ernest Bevin had none of Churchill's solid polish; he was sometimes almost incoherent. But his meaning was as plain as a bulldog's face: "We will do nothing or allow any of our agents and diplomats to do anything to stir up hatred or to provoke or create a situation detrimental to Russia in the eastern countries. ... I am not a criminal if I want friendship with neighbors bordering on the British frontier. What am I doing wrong...
...chaplains had all been in war heaters and their battlefront experiences lad convinced them that the Church needs renewed warnings: | Organized religion has allowed church members to remain religious illiterates. The trouble probably lies in an indirectivay of teaching with high-sounding theo-ogical terms instead of plain talk, which he chaplains found more effective. Hence-orth, civilian clergymen will have to be )etter trained in modern educational methods...