Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Herr Ribbentrop made it plain to M. Bonnet before signing the pact that Eastern Europe was henceforth to be regarded as German Lebensraum and that French alliances with Poland and Czecho-Slovakia were "atavisms." M. Bonnet did not contradict Herr Ribbentrop, signed...
...since Denmark's Premier Thorvald Stauning made a pessimistic New Year's broadcast, Copenhagen papers have debated whether he meant to imply that the country would not resist if invaded. Most of them demanded a stiffer stand. Last week they got it. Bucked by Sweden's plain talk to Russia (see above), the six major parties of Denmark's Folketing (lower house) jointly moved and passed unanimously (one North Schleswig member not voting) a resolution which said...
...gold uppers, alfalfa on his chin, sometimes sports pink gates-ajar collars. He has a ready rube wit. an endless repertory of high jinks, and plays three five-stringed banjos at once. Uncle Dave sets the tone & tune of Grand Ol' Opry, a radio program many plain folk in the South vastly prefer to Charlie McCarthy or Jack Benny...
...about time Bunny got a break. He's had management trouble, financial trouble, personnel trouble, and plain hard luck for so long that it looked as though he wasn't going to make the grade. I hope that this job is a step back towards the breaks and the playing Bunny had and did in his halcyon days on the Swing Club program...
...invade the mountains sometime this winter and try their feet at running trails which are too fast for them. These are the ones who endanger themselves and everybody else in the vicinity because most of them possess a sad lack of training in skiing technique. Therefore it is plain that the coach must not only be expert but available to large numbers of people. Fortunately skiing lends itself to group instruction better than most sports...