Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Franklin Roosevelt: "The main thing that I observed on my trip ... is the plain fact that the American people are united as never before in their determination to do a good job and do it well...
Global Grace. General Marshall likes to be out with the troops, but last week, as he is most of the time, he was in Washington. At 7:30 each morning he stepped from a black Buick sedan and walked into the Munitions Building on Constitution Avenue. In his big, plain office on the second floor, next door to the Secretary of War, he began his day by looking through "the log"?a sheaf of radiograms and cables from Britain, Iceland, Newfoundland, Alaska, the Caribbean, Brazil, British Guiana, Ecuador, West Africa, North Africa, Persia, Hawaii, Australia, the Solomons, India, China?...
...shock of Dunkirk, the draft of 1940, the muddled rush to house the new army for its first winter, the first flow of the young men from their homes, schools, farms, jobs, into a peace time army whose reason for being was far from plain to many of its recruits?of all these things, and more, the army was born. There were the months when OHIO, chalked on latrine walls, meant "over the hill in October," and many of the young men cursed George Marshall, the President, the Congress which (by a House vote of 203-to-202) extended their...
...surface it has just substituted the Oriental face and accent for the Tentonic, but between the scenes of gun battles and pursuit are dramatic interludes which for their intensity and independence of melodramatic props are reminiscent of the best of the "Falcon." So whether you like your thrills plain or salted, "Across the Pacific" is more than a good way to waste an evening...
Mightily pleased was bald, businesslike Robert H. Hinckley, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Air, who had kindled this fire. Cried Hinckley: "History has faced us with the plain alternative: Fly-or die! The entire nation must become air-conditioned. . . . We shall be thoroughly air-conditioned when we are not startled by the proposal that school children visit the Arctic by transport plane to study Eskimos in their native habitat...