Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smart-in Some Ways. Even with all the fighters you could see Berlin plain. The prettiest city I ever seen from the air, prettier than Paris, laid out so perfectly. Those krauts are smart Joes in some ways...
...conduct of education is not an international matter. . . . The job of carrying educational ideas across national frontiers . . . requires considerable tact, sympathy and experience. . . . With the exception of the most obvious cases, a foreigner cannot tell whether teaching is warlike or not. Of course, it is plain in the goose step, the maps, the warlike mottoes: but when it comes to the more delicate emphases, the problem is so difficult [as to be] impossible...
Just what ailed him, he did not say. But it was soon plain that it had little to do with his health. Detroit motormen scoffed at the idea that he has lost any of his piston drive. The Detroit Free Press came out flatly: Sorensen was fired "while he was fishing in the Bahamas out of reach of the telephone." It then went on to say that spry old Henry Ford himself had swung the ax. This was as shocking to some motormen as if the wizard of Dearborn had slashed off his own right...
...Never again in our history did material and spiritual things fuse so completely to form a civilization. The dominant impression that the Album of American History conveys is that the foundations of the country were so solidly laid down that nothing can shake them. These ancestors lived well. Their plain, unlined faces, shown in the book's 150 portraits, were good. They were grave and unaffected, erring, if in any way, on the side of gentleness. Their children were full of grace. The young women were fragile, and the young men were self-satisfied without being either complacent...
Author Sherrod doesn't try to hush up the plain, stark fear that even Marines may give in to under fire. "Colonel," cried a young major desperately, on the second day, "there are a thousand goddamn Marines out there on that beach, and not one will follow me across to the air strip." Replied the Colonel: "You've got to say, 'Who'll follow me?' And if only ten follow you . . . it's better than nothing...