Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line was straight and long (and the judicious hardly dared to hope it would be either) millions of plain men would bless the United Nations Assembly meeting, where that line first appeared. On the Assembly's second day, small crowds gathered in the sun outside the Assembly Building. A woman kept talking wistfully of One World. Said a fat wise-guy with drowsily half-closed eyes: "Lady, with the atom bomb, the only world is the next world...
Peron's purposes were plain: to win the new regime to his treaty for customs and passport union, perhaps then to put Bolivia in almost the same relation to Argentina as Austria was to Hitler's Germany. Last week he was reported demanding tin and rubber from Bolivia to implement his new five-year plan (TIME...
From this it is plain...
...should be plain to all I'm quite an intellectual...
What do we find now? I haven't looked though the catalogue lately but on the family clothesline are plain, brief, lace-less pink panties stretching 12 miles in all directions from Cambridge. No lace, no filmy stuff, no flamboyance, no sequins, no glamour! Just plain, pink underdrawers...