Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington in a dark baggage car, his body lay in state before the flower-banked altar of St. Matthew's Cathedral off fashionable Connecticut Avenue. White-gloved soldiers stood impassively with rifles grounded as crowds filed past. People of Filipino descent, great men of the U.S. and plain Americans came, paused, passed on, hour after hour. The next morning General Marshall, Admiral King, Interior Secretary Ickes, Senators and Supreme Court justices were in the packed church as a Requiem Mass was said...
...Dago Mangano never discounted the element of risk involved in business ventures; he always made it plain that he had no consuming ambition for power. Mike de Pike Heitler, Benjamin (Zookie the Bookie) Zuckerman and many others of his associates died noisily as the years passed, but Dago Mangano - "always prominent but never a big shot"-prospered in peace...
...return from Chicago as the Republican nominee, Tom Dewey had plugged hard at this task, consulting steadily with the nearby state organizations, ironing out intramural squabbles, quietly dropping dead wood, promoting new blood, stressing his own passion for work, unity, detailed organization, action along planned lines. His strategy was plain. He might not be able to excel Quarterback Roosevelt in gay improvisation, tricky forward passes and dazzling end runs, but Tom Dewey was going to try to win by sheer hard work, detailed planning, and power plays...
...cannon rolled into the city. General Hayes gave the strikers their choice: go back to work or lose their right to certificates of availability for any other job for the duration. And all who were 18 to 37 would have their draft deferments canceled. General Hayes also made it plain that the Negroes would keep their jobs...
...praise its author's vitality, are 1) an acute disgust with the oversimplifications and idealizations of most historical fiction, 2) a pounding, repetitious style which, in 363 pages, develops considerable force, and 3) a genuine mastery of hillbilly dialogue. Readers who note how well Author Pennell pictures his plain soldiers, and how successful he is when he is not melodramatic, may wonder why he felt compelled to overload his book with lurid details, hope he will go easier next time...