Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common war aim: to win and go home. Many of them had hoped for higher aims; many still so hoped, all over the world, as in the U.S. But in the 249th week since Sept. 1, 1939, that hope seemed less sure than ever. The press made it plain that World War II was cruel, violent, and boring, like all wars; but it was like no other war, because it gripped the whole earth...
...celebrate or interfere in any way with the business of the armies. If a man looked thirsty they offered him a drink. If he wanted to talk and could speak their language they talked to him in a friendly way. With shyness but also with candor they made it plain that they were glad the armies had come and hoped they would behave...
First it was radishes. Not holly-hocks. Not geraniums. Nothing majestic and beautiful; not even GOP sunflowers. Just plain garden-variety radishes. But the curious public soon cleaned out the Yard's first useful food crop, and it seemed that grass would, after all, be the main product of several months' tilling of the soil...
Samurai sword, plain...
...Girls and a Sailor (M-G-M). The girls are sister nightclub singers named Patsy and Jean Deyo. Noble Patsy (June Allyson) is as reliable as the polestar; spoiled Jean (Gloria De Haven) is as unreliable as a polecat. The sailor (Van Johnson) gives his name as plain John Brown, so it comes as no surprise to learn that he is really John Dyckman Brown III, a democratic multimillionaire. Before the sisters learn his secret he spends a good deal of his fortune sending orchids (signed "Somebody") to flirtatious Jean, much to Patsy's pain...