Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Singh, president of the India League of America, this was almost the end of a two-year fight. A 6-ft. Sikh from Kashmir, Singh had written thousands of letters, made hundreds of phone calls, tirelessly stalked Capitol Hill hallways. He had battled Congressional apathy, prejudice and plain ignorance. (Some legislators had thought he was talking about American Indians...
...Todd had written: "The Great Plain of China can be made a perfectly safe place in which to dwell and carry on agricultural pursuits." To prove it he was working 16 hours a day, seven days a week. An impassioned man in a blue shirt, he now rides daily back & forth along the bumpy dike tops, directing the work with his expressive hands (he speaks Chinese indifferently...
That the civilization called "Western" had in the 20th Century faltered and sickened was a fact so often reported and so frighteningly plain that men tended to ignore the vitality that still throbbed 'in the West's heart...
Apparently the owners were confident that they could break the strike. The union, counting on its own strength and anticipated sympathy strikes from longshoremen and ocean seamen, was equally sure of itself. But what worried plain citizens was that every available ship was needed to haul next winter's coal from the U.S. Each wasted day meant cold homes for next winter...
Around the red-carpeted stage in the Library's Coolidge auditorium, experts and plain people spoke their hopes and fears, their doubts and convictions.* There were no sound effects, no musical bridge between speakers, no corny gags. CBS thought the question of the age demanded straight answers. The program's success was due in large part to that approach-and also to one of the most painstaking preparations ever made for a single broadcast...