Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain by now that the deputies' conference might serve merely as a preliminary to semifinals, not finals. The Foreign Ministers, when they meet in Moscow in March, are expected to throw most of the problems back to the deputies, with more or less specific instructions. A high U.S. diplomat last week estimated that it might be anywhere from nine months to two years before the peace treaty with Germany is finally written...
Last week brought another kind of shock to Britain's plain people and to its Laborite Ministers. Ellen Wilkinson, the fiery, tiny (4 ft. 10 in.) Minister of Education, was dead. To her colleagues in the Cabinet, many of whom were tired or ailing, her death at 55 was more than the loss of an able and courageous fighter for the Party's causes: it was also a solemn warning. She had been in a hospital for 24 hours with bronchitis; there her fatigued heart had collapsed...
...irony was not lost on the Parliament's few true democrats. The essence of a democratic popular election is a secret ballot, but most of the members of this Parliament had been chosen in a terror-ridden election in which most voters had cast open ballots in plain view of the Government's poll watchers (TIME, Jan. 27). On the other hand, democratic practice usually calls for an open vote by elected representatives, so that their constituents can check up on them. Poland's rulers have just reversed Western democratic procedure...
...newspapers from San Francisco to Paris, but would rather live in his home town, Three Rivers, Mich. (pop. 6,710). Most of Chet's columns are as casual as any street-corner conversation: they concern a funeral, a backyard spat, an old gaffer's boyhood reminiscence, or plain cigar-store gossip. Sometimes he reports technological progress...
...into Contraband. But the bit wound up on the cutting-room floor. So Deborah continued to live at a Y.W.C.A. on 35 shillings ($7) a week and spent most of her waking hours being turned out of producers' offices. By the time Gabriel Pascal saw her, plain living and plenty of walking had etherealized the dumpling to that lithe spirit which Pascal singled...