Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither is subtle, complex or daring. Whitney is a well-read man who likes to lace his speeches with literary allusions. Johnston (nobody calls him Al) is a plain, blunt man who almost never makes a speech, puts on a front of gruff irascibility...
...plain citizens were wondering...
...good many of you have said that TIME told the Pearl Harbor story about as plainly and accurately as it could told. How many telephone calls, cables, how much research and plain reporting that took is not precisely calculable, but our National Affairs editor says that it was plenty. And that kind of verification goes on here week in and week out. For instance, I have been going over the scores of telegrams and cables asking our bureaus and correspondents here and abroad for verification of facts for a recent issue. Here are some of them...
...mayor (for two terms), as county trustee (for eight years), and then as just a plain political boss, he slugged and beat and charmed his way to power. Always, he fought the "interests." When the Frisco and N.C. & St.L. railroads failed to agree with his interpretation of their franchises, he marched out with a crowbar, tore up their tracks, and stationed police over his handiwork...
...House of Lords Britain's most revered document came up for examination. As the Lords voted to lend the Lacock Abbey copy of the Great Charter to the U.S., their eye fell on a yoo-odd-year-old mistake. "Hard on the plain man" (says Philologist H. W. Fowler) but dear to the heart of many a Briton is the age-old habit of spelling it "Magna Charta" and pronouncing it "Magna Karta." Last week the Lord Chancellor invited the Lords to drop the h. They...