Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also made it plain that he had not become CNO to preside over the liquidation of the Navy. As the first up-from-the-cockpit air admiral ever to achieve the top job of the service, he was for keeping naval aviation strong, and said so. None of this meant that he would have any easy time in restoring harmony. But it made Navy hotheads reconsider: Sherman, an officer of sharp intellect and steely determination, would probably be able to argue the Navy's case, within the limits of unification, better than anyone in the service...
Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps last week declared flatly that Britain could not integrate her economy with Europe's "in any manner that would prejudice" Britain's responsibilities toward the Commonwealth and the sterling area. In plain English, Cripps was saying "count me out" to any further plans for economic union...
...seen as foxes chiefly engaged in outfoxing one another, the Hubbards take their place in the long comic tradition of cheating cheaters. And the tone is becoming to Composer (The Cradle Will Rock) Blitzstein, who gets strident when shaking his fist but is vivacious when thumbing his nose. As plain razzing-it falls flat when it reaches for satire-Regina teems with brisk musical stage directions, brilliant little jingles, V-for-villainy motifs, high-spirited hocuspocus...
Georgia O'Keeffe, a plain-spoken lady who looks as severe as her own paintings, played a modest part in the festivities. She stood up when called upon and said: ''This is a gift from Stieglitz. It is for the students of this university. I hope you will go and look at these paintings more than once...
...nose and a little round belly that shook when he laughed like a bowl full of jelly." While originally applied to one S. Claus, these lines also serve well to describe another revered wintertime wizard, one P. Limmer of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts--Peter Limmer, Meister Schumacher...