Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Viscount Bernard Law Montgomery, Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Just a friendly call, said Harry Truman. Uneasy Monty, whirled through a hectic tour last week of U.S. military posts, donned his chattiest air of idle curiosity. But the yen to talk turkey about U.S.-British strategy was as plain as the eight rows of ribbons on Monty's chest...
...election followed a centuries-old formula. For four days electors were confined to the Society's headquarters at the Borgo Santo Spirito. When election day came, they attended a 5:30 Mass of the Holy Ghost, then, wearing their plain black robes, filed into the Hall of Elections. After an exhortation on the qualities most needed in the new General, electors knelt for the prescribed hour of prayer and meditation. The hour past, each elector read the oath: "I swear that my vote has been guided only by the interest of the Church and the Society of Jesus," dropped...
Tall, brown-haired Dr. Ivanissevich, who had been Peron's personal physician before becoming a diplomat, made it plain that this notion had been only a notion. "You should know," he said, "through the lips of a man who possesses the singular merit of never having lied, the truth regarding the Argentine Republic...
...Wilson last week, made a small profit in July, will probably show one for August. But things were far from good. For the year as a whole, G.M. would still be in the red. Charlie Wilson met the press in Detroit's Statler Hotel and told why. His plain talking was characteristic, and significant, for G.M.'s troubles are the troubles of most U.S. mass production industries...
Bishop Ruesga's own church in Calzada de Guadalupe, a starkly simple building in a land where churchly magnificence rules, is in plain sight of the famed Church of the Virgin of Guadalupe, chief shrine of Mexican Catholicism. The church's few small stained-glass windows are protected by chicken wire from rocks hurled by passing Catholics. Its façade is always mud-spattered. Once an attempt was made to burn the building...