Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME story to bed accurately often requires the help of many people unconnected with TIME: professional journalists, specialists in every imaginable field of endeavor, possessors of specific facts, plain citizens. Their contributions, freely asked for, are almost always freely and gladly given-a fact of which TIME is proud and for which it is very grateful. Typical of the kind of help these contributors provide is this incident from the work of getting out the March 24th issue...
Faint Sound. In all, 111 men had died. It was the worst mine disaster in the U.S. since 195 miners died in an explosion at Mather, Pa. in 1928. To miners and many a plain citizen it seemed like a senseless tragedy. Mine inspectors had been denouncing Centralia's No. 5 for years-one recent report had listed many dangerous violations of safety codes, but little had ever been done to correct them...
...rebuke him for ordering the servants about too much. King George can approve his daughter's marriage only with the consent of the Cabinet, and so far Philip's connection with the Greek regime, remote as it is, has been a slight hitch. But last week, as plain Lieut. Philip Mountbatten, Prince Philip was granted his British citizenship, and even that hitch seemed to have been overcome. When Elizabeth is asked about her engagement, she replies with a coy, "For that you must wait and see." But the Empire is quite prepared to welcome...
Last week, the new Berle show, despite a choice time spot (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC) and a whopping publicity buildup by Philip Morris, got a not-so-hot Hooperating of 11.1. The reason was as plain as the remodeled nose on Milt's face: he has to be seen. His gags need his visible leers and risible nudges to get across...
...Utopian experiment consisted chiefly in following the Wordsworthian principles of "plain living and high thinking." Shunning his parents' wealthy house, FitzGerald rented a small cottage in Suffolk, where he lived for 16 years with a dog, a cat and a parrot. His staple diet was bread, fruit, cheese and fish, his recreations walking and sailing, his routine "of an even, grey-paper character." "He [lives]," complained one of his friends, "in a state of disgraceful indifference to everything, except grass and fresh air. . . . Half the self-sacrifice . . . the moral resolution, which he exercises . . . would amply furnish forth a martyr...