Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communists came to the rescue with an unconditional ceasefire. By official decree brothel keepers were forbidden to hold girls in bondage. "But liberation was not achieved without months of patient work in enlightening the prostitutes' warped minds. Now they dress in plain, homely clothes instead of the erstwhile seductive dresses. . . . Most have been sent back to their families or married off to small businessmen, carpenters, tailors...
During his training moves over the huge oval he had shown speed and stamina, but neither boot nor bat could budge him past a spot on the clubhouse turn where a friendly side road beckoned towards his stable area. He had made plain his stand, or so he thought...
...flight, AVCO sprouted from gilt-edged seed (Lehman Brothers; Brown Bros., Harriman and Co., etc.) in March 1929, as a holding company for all branches of aviation. For a time it flew high, controlling 81 corporations. But soon it crashed into such a welter of squabbles, proxy fights and plain bad management that Wall Street quipped: "AVCO was begotten in sin and carried on in seduction." Not till 1937 did AVCO turn into an honest woman...
...plentiful that London gossiped that the British Board of Trade was about to restore a free market. If it did, prices might drop even lower, and the British might have to take a whopping loss on the rubber already bought for 23½ ?. To Wall Streeters the moral was plain: if the price of crude rubber, once among the scarcest of commodities, could drop so quickly, how long would the sky-high prices of other "short" commodities stay...
...censors demanded further appeasement. (Example: as an undergraduate cutup, the rake, or notorious gentleman, one day climbs an Oxford monument to deposit a chamber pot on the spire.* The Johnston Office, either on the grounds that a thundermug was an affront to American plumberhood or that it was just plain vulgar, substituted a silk...