Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Champ had swung-a full roundhouse blow. And it was plain to the newsmen on the Dewey Special that the challenger had been hit hard-as plain as when a boxer drops his gloves and his eyes glaze...
...stubborn defendant with his own damning confession, Tom Dewey had a field day with a hatful of hapless Administration quotes, including some from Franklin Roosevelt. He recalled that, in January 1940, he himself had called for a two-ocean Navy. That statement had been branded by F.D.R. as "just plain dumb." Cracked Tom Dewey: "Then, as now, we got ridicule instead of action...
...cold, logical and precise fashion. He had a difficult task: to be New Dealish enough to hold the vote of all those who do not want a reactionary administration but are weary of New Deal mismanagements; yet to attack powerfully enough to please those who are just plain mad at Franklin Roosevelt...
...capture of Rimini was no longer important. The Fifth Army in the center, having fought its way across the Apennines in ten days of as rough fighting as any at Cassino, had really wrecked the Line. From the foothills above Bologna they were only 80 miles across the plain from Verona and Padua. The German troops retiring from Rimini, on the eastern end of the Gothic Line, and those holding the western end of the Line near La Spezia now had to race northward or be cut off, for Verona and Padua are their only ways...
...issued from Quebec. Secretary Hull announced that he is already planning an international conference on cartels. Washington believed that what Mr. Hull had in mind was a convention against cartels, that he would like other nations to subscribe to the philosophy of the U.S. antitrust acts. Next day, for plain citizens still hazy on why the Administration was so excited, the Justice Department's antitrust division provided an example...