Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain good food for at least six months before anyone can possibly expect them to have the strength and vigor and stamina to start a counteroffensive...
Chaplain Myers believes that his plain speaking should act as a challenge to churchmen: "There is no need for our churches to fear the truth. Frankness in this matter is not against the war effort, and it isn't expected of churches that they should surrender their idealism. We should understand now, before the great discharge of soldiers begins, that foxholes are not now and never will do the work of our Christian institutions...
...would have - possibly Druidism, if we have a Celtic rill in our veins. . . . Whatever forms of religion are alive among us we owe to Asia." "We of the West," declares Novelist Pearl Buck, "need to have happiness restored to us, not through a new spiritual rebirth, but through a plain and simple return [to the Eastern conviction that] what makes a human being happy is to feel himself wanted and understood and appreciated. The fabulous courtesy of the East is not a ritual, but simply oil to grease the machinery of human relationships. The people of the East need from...
Flanking the Plain, under the shade of the great elms, stood excited parents and friends. Among them, more subdued but more deeply moved, stood an older part of the Long Grey Line of West Point graduates. At a booming command, some 4,800 white-gloved hands snapped 2,400 rifles to "present arms." Front & center, to the strains of Alma Mater, marched the 853 members of the class of 1945, the largest in West Point history. Then the Corps, company by company, wheeled and passed in review, rank on rigid rank saluting with eyes right, and being saluted in turn...
Affection v. Appetite. The story of Reynard has been variously interpreted. Thomas Carlyle called it "a wild parody of human life." Medievalists have seen in it a parable of the struggle between church and state. But plain readers will always love Reynard simply as a prime deflator of stuffed shirts and a delightful rogue who always gets away with...