Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clangorous Congress of International Unions (Japan's C.I.O.), were using their privileges to sabotage the occupation. When a seamen's walkout at Sasebo halted the sailing of five merchant ships which were to bring repatriates from the Ryukyu Islands and Manchuria, MacArthur decided it was time for plain speaking. He directed the Japanese Government to man and operate the ships and take necessary steps to prevent further walkouts. The Government was to carry out these orders "without the use of police force"; if this was impossible, occupation forces would step...
...cause of justice and peace, power politics in general and the cleavage between Russia and the West in particular will bring the peoples of the world to a holocaust ruinous literally for generations. Interfaith collaboration in this area is of the essence now. . . . Our duty here is plain...
...climbed back 8¾ points, stood at 189¼. The rest of the market showed signs of making another slow, tedious climb back to grace. Some brokers say this shows the bull market is still alive & kicking. But security Analyst John H. Lewis did some plain speaking in The Commercial and Financial Chronicle. Said he: "The four-year-old bull market ended last May 31st." Wall Street sighed, hoped it wasn...
...Years Before the Mast (Paramount), based on Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s semi-classic, is no more unfaithful to its original than most screen adaptions. Taken as plain fiction, Two Years Before the Mast is a good, rough sea story. Taken as Paramount presents it-as a faithful Dana report of the U.S. merchant seaman's lot a century ago-it sounds and looks like a job of rewriting by one of the more fanatical members of the National Maritime Union...
...inquiry into U.S. relations with the rest of the world. For the most part, Correspondent Stowe writes in lumbering, low-gear journalese ("diabolical idealistic window-dressing to make cannon fodder out of the cream of their countries' youth," etc.), but certain of his assertions are perfectly plain. Among them: 1) the U.S. itself started the atomic armament race with the U.S.S.R.; 2) the U.S. with its concentrated seaboard metropolises could not protect itself as well as Russia, were matters to come to an atomic showdown; 3) the U.S. has thus far shown little interest in making its democratic ways...