Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration began to unwind the rationing program. Gin was already flowing out of distilleries in place of war alcohol; whiskey was back on the dealers' shelves, in plain sight of the voters. And then Sept. 17 was set as the day when all processed foods except canned fruits and a few other items will be unrationed...
...chafed under straitjacketing controls? Away with all such shackles, said Jimmy. Had housewives grumbled under rationing? There would be mountains of food. Czar Jimmy promised plenty of everything, and the removal of all possible controls. The Byrnes statement looked like politics but also good sense, for it was now plain that the U.S. had pulled in its belt tight enough and long enough to have a surplus of almost everything when Germany quits...
...biggest ovation so far. Owosso, Mich. (pop. 17,000) drew some 25,000 from Shiawassee County down to Main Street for a Saturday night look at the home-town boy who had made good.*Tom Dewey made a brief, extemporaneous address, then retired to his mother's plain, white-painted home for a Sunday of rest and meditation...
...grass plain...
...Fifth and British Eighth Armies made inroads at both ends of the Gothic Line. Torrential rains and stubborn Nazi rear guards kept them from spectacular results, but Field Marshal Albert Kesselring was making his last stand, which would end when the British could break through Rimini into the plain of the Po. Already he had pulled back the tough Nazis of the ist Parachute Division who had taken a beating before Rimini, and replaced them with Turkoman infantry of the 162nd Division...