Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of these first-person reports have been given by plain people-like the women war workers who told you about their jobs at the arsenal proving grounds in Aberdeen, Maryland-or the Englishman just back from a Commando raid who told you the epic story of the battle of St.-Nazaire-or the U.S. bombardier in London who told you how it feels to bomb Germany...
...drama enacted was as big as the U.S. and as small as the motives of little men. Its chronology was simple and its meaning plain. On Sept. 7 President Roosevelt asked the Congress for these new powers over farm prices and wages, and set Oct. 1 as the deadline. He stipulated that a fair farm price was 100% of "parity," * and no more...
...This plain, effective platform had not been drawn up overnight. It dated from last July when mastiff-faced Representative J. William Ditter of Ambler, Pa., chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee decided that the G.O.P. Congressmen needed a solid platform to campaign...
Whether it's compulsory exercise, a desire to get in tip-top shape for action with the armed services, or just plain football enthusiasm, Adolph Samborski 26, director of House athletics, doesn't know; but he does know that many more men have reported for House football than he has uniform...
...digs into the fundamental problems this war poses for everyone, particularly for the generation which must fight. Presenting the war with powerful directness, the play gives it meaning for each individual. A pleasant relief from the "all out" slush with which some business men, women's clubs, and just plain slackers rationalize their existence, it shows plainly that this "global" struggle is still a war in which young men chiefly die, and young women chiefly weep...