Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plain Enough. There had been some question, he said, his lips forming a straight line, about where he stood on various things, particularly Bretton Woods. He was for it. We need an international monetary setup, he continued, and he would have supported it had he been in the Senate, and would have done everything he could as Vice President to help Frank lin Roosevelt get it through. He said he was for it all the way, and he said he hoped that was plain enough...
...correspondent asked if that included the stabilization fund. Truman replied quickly that it included the program as sent to Congress by the President (Roosevelt). Again he said that was as plain as he could make it. By now the scribbling correspondents were well aware that friend ly Harry Truman was laying his views clearly on the line...
...first meeting with Franklin Roosevelt, at the Cairo Conference in November 1943) paid a simple, heartfelt tribute: "His passing leaves us very poor indeed. .. . ." People's Man. Not Lincoln as a legend, nor Wilson, beyond his brief hour of triumph, had been known so well to the plain people of the earth. They felt they had lost a friend, the American who to them was all that they wanted America to be, and they feared the times to come without...
Stunned by shells, bombs and defeat, plain Germans barely glanced up from their ruins. Professional Nazis spat...
...plain people of Germany the future is a blank space-when they have time to think of it. Mostly they don't, since the present holds too many problems of bare existence. But last week, in flattened Frankfurt, TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth found a German civilian, ex-mayor of a nearby town, who had thought earnestly about the future. Knauth's report...