Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have learned that the ordinary citizen, from Cairo to Moscow to Chungking, is a lover of liberty and wants action-action now. He is ahead of his leaders, this plain citizen of Africa, or Europe, or Asia, or America. It annoys him that much of the might of the United Nations stands idle, awaiting action on some future...
Later Johnny wrote I'm an Old Cowhand, On Behalf of the Visiting Firemen, Jeepers Creepers, Lazy Bones and Skylark. With half the U.S. mumbling his 42nd-Street plain chant in its sleep, Mercer moved on to Hollywood. Blues in the Night, written for a Warner Brothers musical, sold over a million copies. By last week another Mercer opus. Strip Polka (for which the versatile Johnny had written the tune as well as the words), was No. 2 on Variety's list of bestsellers. Its homely refrain...
...high-school and prep-school youngsters are eligible but not required to join the Corps. To wear a plain red V on his sleeve, a student must take courses in physical fitness and a war-useful subject (e.g., math), must enroll in at least one home-front job (e.g., air warden, scrap collector, farm worker...
...plain office in the Munitions Building come reports of military operations in all theaters of combat. Every day he discusses the progress of the war with his chief and fellow V.M.I, alumnus, General George Catlett Marshall. About three times a week he talks over grand strategy with Admiral William D. Leahy, the President's war effort coordinator. (General Eisenhower used to confer secretly with the President himself.) It is up to General Handy and his Division to make plans for U.S. moves, decide where forces should concentrate, where the bombers should strike. When a plan gets the Army...
Fauna & Flora. The most exotic feature of the islands is the bird life. Americans get a laugh out of the gony bird for a while. Then he is a plain nuisance. Frigate birds are scoundrels who make a living by snatching food out of other birds' beaks. The sooty tern lays its eggs on the ends of broken limbs of the breadfruit tree. On one island there is a lone rooster. His morning crowing to high heaven wakes up the whole island-that is how big this atoll is. He makes the farm boys homesick...