Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...race that dwells in Western China is either aborigine or native. To trace the source of Lolo one must study the history of the Indo-Aryan race who moved from Central Asia into Indo-Gangetic plain and then spread abroad. From the famous Indian Epic Mahabharata we know definitely that a large group of people did flee from Hird to the surrounding mountain countries. Further discovery of history is urgently necessary for scholars of atomic...
...world it will surely not belie the expectations of those who see in it the last chance of saving themselves and their children from the scourge of war." So far, U.N. has captured few imaginations. Insofar as they paid any attention to it at all, the world's plain people watched how their own national leaders were doing in the U.N. arena. It was typical of the state of the United Nations that Trygve Lie enjoyed clamorous popularity in Norway, where he was feted on his soth birthday last summer by everyone from Crown Prince Olaf to Communist Party...
...State Department's decision was based in part on the belief that a number of Congressmen and plain Americans had become incensed by the "ingratitude" of some of the recipient nations. It was true that of the $3,693,000,000 spent by UNRRA in its three-year life, almost three-quarters had come out of U.S. pockets. More than half of this money had been spent (where it was needed most) in nations firmly within the Russian orbit. Yugoslavia received $429 million worth of food, fuel, commodities, industrial supplies and other necessary aid, Czechoslovakia $270 million, Poland...
Highly conservative, the establishment from the outside is a plain unmarked building save for the small inscription "Mory's" on the door. Inside, money rarely changes hands, payment being made by the signing of checks. To enter this exclusive group, an Eli pays only a small fee, but must be nominated by two present members and voted on by the board, a process which usually takes several weeks, or even months...
...mysterious sanctums of the secret societies. No living soul, supposedly, knows the membership of these organizations save the members themselves, and no person of the outside world has even seen a member in the act of entering the building. The Book and Snake sanctum, as an example, is a plain white stone cubical structure surrounded by a massive iron fence and having no visible means of entrance. Meetings it is rumored, are held at midnight, but that's only hearsay...