Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cleveland conference lasted for four days of earnest, enlightening debates (see box). After the unconditional endorsement of Dumbarton Oaks, the Christians made plain their Christianity by demanding "improvements" in terms of the following nine points...
...shocked. Presidential Secretary Steve Early averred that it was all "a most regrettable combination of errors." A.T.C.'s Major General Harold L. George promised an investigation. Dallas' well-named Bonehead Club tried and failed to airmail a St. Bernard back to the White House. Many a plain U.S. citizen, ears ringing with the week's officially urgent pleas for more manpower, less unnecessary travel, etc., sat down to write an angry letter to his newspaper...
Sergeant's Surprise. With Company M of the 12th Infantry, Private Krueger took part in a 25-mile advance from Angeles to Tarlac, Aguinaldo's capital. But Aguinaldo had fled, and the 12th pursued him vainly all the way through Luzon's central plain to Dagupan on Lingayen Gulf. To the Madison Courier Krueger wrote excellent descriptions of the campaign, explaining: "Undoubtedly you see a good deal written about . . . the Philippines, but I thought, although many professors may have their theories about these islands, 'a fool here knows more than six wise men at home...
...lieutenant, Krueger was back in the Philippines in 1908. The long-nosed, serious-faced young man with the dark hair parted dead center, brushed due east & west, was made a topographical inspector. As head of a mapping party, he rode and tramped up & down, back & forth across the central plain of Luzon. Few men today are more familiar with its military features than Walter Krueger. With the Japanese in possession, Luzon's familiar map requires some changes. Walter Krueger is the man to make them...
Inflation Ahead? This time the reason for the boom was plain: "Everybody has too much money." Everybody was also trying to hedge against inflation. A few weeks ago, traders were willing to bet that the line against inflation could be held. But last week, eyeing the boost in steel prices and textile wages-and the threatened cutbacks in civilian production-they sank their cash in common stocks and, in effect, bet that they would keep rising along with any general rise in prices...