Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Court was beset by conflicts, personal and philosophic. The situation was not unprecedented, but Supreme Court Justices have generally done their feuding on a plane too high for ordinary observation. On the present Court the feuding was in plain view...
Undaunted. She wore a plain black coat, a soft felt hat with black and green ribbons. But to the thousands gathered at Vught, in the soft light of the Dutch evening she did not seem just a plain old woman. In dead silence she walked 500 yards along the firing range where the Nazis used to practice. The last 25 yards of her way she had to struggle with a laurel wreath almost as tall as she. Among the lilies and tulips at the base of a 15-ft. cross commemorating those who died at Vught, Wilhelmina of The Netherlands...
...plain-shoutin' little man was Fiorello LaGuardia, ex-mayor of New York, now head of UNRRA, who had swooped into North Dakota, wearing a pearl-grey sombrero. Secretary of Agriculture Clint Anderson, wearing a tie painted with pink and yellow apples, was with him-at LaGuardia's urgent request. For two days they had scurried across Red River Valley, looking for wheat for UNRRA...
...Ottawa, an External Affairs Department spokesman stood it as long as he could. Then, in language as diplomatic as his striped pants, he flatly said that such press reports were "misleading." In plain Canadian talk: flapdoodle...
Even Walt Disney's best films-barring his wonderful slapstick-have suffered from sticky taste; in this effort to be just plain folksy, that stickiness pretty thoroughly gums up the works. Disconcerting evidence of flagging inventiveness: the Gates of Heaven turn up in two numbers, and ghost-peopled clouds in a third. Yet Make Mine Music is supposed to be a variety show...