Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wheel of his car, rubbernecking, refighting the Civil War, Harry Truman had his wish of becoming a plain man again. Like other plain men, he was barred from a lookout tower on the field of Gettysburg by ropes and a sign: "Wet Paint...
Across the Kansas plain great puffs of whitish dust erupted into the shimmering heat. Inside these clouds the ponderous combines roared and clanked, their reel slats flashing as they flailed through the knee-high wheat. In the No. 1 wheat state of the world's greatest wheat-producing nation, it was harvest time...
...Luck. Bikini left plain people as worried as Pravda, but for different, vaguer reasons. In Paris' rue Cambon, about 25 minutes' walk away from the Big Four Conference Hall, the day after Bikini a long narrow mirror fastened to a wall suddenly fell to the ground without apparent cause. A crowd gathered about the broken glass that boded seven years of bad luck to someone. A frowzy woman murmured: "The atom bomb." The people near her nodded gravely...
...strike settlement. Ore prices edged up. So did pig iron. In Birmingham, two plants boosted prices $3 a ton. Scrap dealers were tightly hanging on to their scrap for the expected big boost and an acute shortage was in the making. The pattern of price increases among suppliers was plain; Pittsburgh gossiped that certain types of steel would soon rise anywhere from...
...cashing in on his early experience as a Broadway chorus boy, amazes his public by singing and dancing. As romantic lead comedian, Van also makes love and makes like a wild duck. Esther Williams shows off her dramatic talents in elaborate gowns and her more notable gifts in a plain bathing suit. Competing for laughs, Keenan Wynn and Lucille Ball work so hard they seem bent on destroying themselves...