Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...task impossible; conflicting ideologies had been put together before. But it was worth noting (lest the world delude itself as to the difficulties facing UNESCO) that such sentiments as Ribnikar's were not those with which Alexander and Porus met in friendship on the fertile Punjab plain...
...then to Gimbels. As its No. 1 huckster for the last six years, stout, bosomy Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, "almost 50," earns almost $100,000 a year for such sloganeering as "Gimbels HAS," "NOBODY but nobody beats Gimbels," and "The horse with the hansom behind doesn't come to plain, old Gimbels...
...inhabitants of the little town of Caravate on the Lombardy plain, Don Luigi Milani was no ordinary parish priest. Thirty-five years old, tall, extremely handsome, he was the greatest athlete in the whole countryside, the leading figure in welfare and charity work, a convincing speaker with enlightened views. He was popular even with Communists, whom he invited to his house to discuss politics and religion...
Tracked Down. The Army uncovered more than 2,400,000 psychoneurotics (1,875,000 rejected in the draft, 600,000 discharged after induction). Four-fifths of those discharged had cracked up under training-camp discipline before they saw any fighting. General Cooke found many a plain & fancy coward: at Massachusetts' Camp Edwards, where 2,800 reluctant soldiers facing shipment to battlefronts were imprisoned in a stockade, he discovered that, to avoid going, men threw away their false teeth, hid in coal bins, jumped off harbor boats, paid up to $1,000 to civilian doctors to tell them...
...recently settled pilots' strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), postponed all expansion plans, canceled orders for 25 planes. Pennsylvania-Central Airlines Corp. cut its staff some 15%, Western Air Lines, Inc. canceled half its orders for new planes, and Colonial Airlines, Inc. laid off employes. The reasons were plain: passenger travel had slumped, was not coming up to optimistic airline estimates...