Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...defense corps and rifle clubs that popped up all over the U. S. made it plain that no mere appropriation of money could give the U. S. a sense of security, satisfy the U. S. demand for action. Springing from hysteria, an itch for publicity, a deep-seated fear that official defense measures might be botched, or a resurgence of the old backwoods instinct that nothing so calms a man's nerves as polishing a rifle, defense organizations flourished so widely last week that they belonged, as did fifth-column talk, in the category of a national phenomenon...
...words sputtered last week on the subject of U. S. Defense, the most revealing did not come from Franklin Roosevelt (see p. 11). Nor did they come from editors or plain citizens, demanding effective Defense at any cost (see p. 12). Nor from the U. S. Senate, unanimously voting $3,297,000,000 for the Army & Navy. Nor from Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, saying that the Army with all its new money cannot be ready for a war before December 1941. Nor from Chief of Naval Operations Harold Raynsford Stark, confessing at last that the U. S. Navy...
Frank Craven is Our Town's spokesman. As he stands against a cloud-piled sky, he might be any kind of American, a farmer, an editor, a bookie. He is the village druggist. Like the other villagers, he is dirt-plain, sensible, forthright. Tolerance with him is a form of humor. He never loses his balance in between. Unlike the other villagers, he is articulate. Like most Americans, he prefers to let things and people speak for themselves. He just introduces them...
...first eight months of World War 11 most U. S. churchmen were pacifist, isolationist. Likewise isolationist were most other U. S. citizens. But since May 10, remarkable changes have come over plain U. S. isolationists: With German Blitzkrieg in the Low Countries, they veered from isolation almost as fast as German columns advanced...
...skeptical natives listened in ominous silence to the "voice from Delhi"; when the engineer, hitherto unseen, was spotted inside the van after the broadcast, they clamored indignantly that they had been duped. Bokhari, trying to pacify them, promised to bring the voice back while the engineer remained outside, in plain view. Bokhari threw the switch, fiddled with the dials-no sound. Delhi had gone off the air. The villagers reached for stones and Bokhari and the sound truck fled...