Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doings that he was now occupied with actual tactics, military, diplomatic and political. Foremost in the array of tactical problems before him was personnel in his top command. In this area he made changes and moves of transcendent importance. In certain of these changes Harry Hopkins' influence was plain...
Last week that fact was dramatically plain. By a thumping nonpartisan majority, (360-to-29) the House had passed the Fulbright Resolution, pledging the U.S. to carry its full load in postwar international relations (TIME, June...
...some Senators would have an anti-British, anti-Russian field day (ten out of 23 of his own Committeemen are pre-Pearl Harbor isolationists). In short, Tom Connally does not want to start the Great Debate. But Connally takes his lead in foreign affairs from the White House, and plain indications are that Franklin Roosevelt wants to write the peace with as little Congressional interference as possible. The result, suggested by levelheaded Columnist
...busses to get its operators safely to & from work, through the cordons of roistering, fanny-pinching Legionnaires. There were crap games on the streets, bonfires in hotel lobbies, impromptu band concerts all night. Sacks of water fell out of hotel windows on hapless pedestrians. No female was too formidably plain to be safe from leers or sudden noises behind...
...under German mortar fire, he picked a careful way behind stone walls up the limestone and pumice heights of the Sorrentine peninsula. From the ridge the patches of chestnut forest tumbled into the brown Campania plain. The General looked in the direction of the ashen ruins of Pompeii, the lava-scarred cone of Vesuvius. Beyond the volcano rose a huge shroud of smoke over the port of Naples. In that city of 900,000, rising in tourist times like a white amphitheater from the blue sea, the Germans were dynamiting and burning. It was clear proof that the Wehrmacht...