Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Byrnes has received so many votes for Man of the Year, there are indications that many of your readers are on the right track. But they're going the wrong way. Byrnes's fame rests on his struggle against ruthless power to enforce its will on the plain citizens of the world. It is this evil power and its attempt to extend itself . . . that has provided the most significant news of 1946. I therefore nominate for Man of the Year the greatest personification of that power-Vyacheslav Molotov...
...They as much as told us to go to hell," he commented wistfully, "We were willing to go up eight or ten percent, but $85.00 an hour is just plain ridiculous." This, apparently, is very unsporting of the Skating Club, since the University is largely responsible for giving it its start originally...
...sordid one," he read that Tuesday morning, in the weary tones of a tired preacher who knows his text by heart. The Norris-LaGuardia Act, he said, barred such injunctions as the court had issued; and-looking straight at the judge -the act was written "in plain language which any intelligent citizen can understand...
...reasons why T.W.A. needed the cash were dismally plain. In the third quarter, T.W.A. reported last week, it had lost $3,235,491, bringing the net loss for the first nine months to $4,846,450. The third quarter losses, said President Jack Frye, were caused by CAA's grounding of Constellations. And the pilots' strike was likely to make the fourth quarter the worst of the year...
...scholarship in-a-vacuum. "Do you know that of the 22 hundred million people in the world, 15 hundred million don't read at all, or read a script which doesn't use an alphabet?" he went on, in a tone of bitterness and shock which made it plain that his fight against illiteracy and incomplete communication is a root fact of his life...