Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After buttonholing plain voters and political dopesters in the South, the Southwest and the Midwest, California's Kyle Palmer, veteran GOPster and political editor of the Republican Los Angeles Times, offered the G.O.P. high command a "simple, sure-fire formula to beat the New Deal." The formula: "Down with the Washington bureaucrats...
Another Admiral. Eastward above the sun-scorched plain of India flew the big transport Marco Polo. At New Delhi the plane circled down, taxied to a hangar's shade. The rear underhatch opened, a ladder thrust down. Out climbed an immaculately groomed Briton in the semitropical khaki of a Royal Navy Admiral. A welcoming line of high-ranking Allied officers, flecked with gold braid and turbans, snapped to salute. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of the King-Emperor, ex-chief of the Commandos and now Allied Commander in Southeast Asia, briskly returned the salute. Down the line of officers...
Energy v. Violence. This time Uncle Charlie makes it plain that he believes that Hamilton, Madison and the rest of the Founders were men first and business men second, that they believed in liberty as well as property, morals as well as interests, rights as well as powers. The Constitution may not have been written, or even ratified, by all the people referred to as "We, the People," in the Preamble. But the men who made it believed in the doc trine that there are many "rights" anterior to government, and that these rights belong to all the people. Even...
...York Times's scholarly Herbert L. Matthews (TIME, April 12) was with the Allied armies fighting on the plain of Naples. For a day Correspondent Matthews dropped his war reporting, hired a guide, went up Vesuvius in a jeep and afoot to sightsee. Then he wrote home...
...Along the road of death we are driving to the plain of Naples. . . . The worst is over...