Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...benefit of the nation. The private owner can have his rake-off so long as the rake-off is not too expensive, but this attitude on the part of private enterprise that the Government must not come in and must leave it to private enterprise, is just plain nonsense and bunkum...
When Mason, a Republican who likes bow ties, boating and plain talk, was appointed a commissioner by his old friend Harry Truman, the President hoped that Mason would turn FTC into a plain-speaking tribunal. Businessmen could then get quick, common sense answers on important labeling matters. By substituting chatty, humorous prose for the usual gobbledygook, Mason proved that he was the man the President thought...
...does studiously unstudied things with her legs, makes her voice gallant and common, performs in fact with a good deal of care and skill, her emphasis on words like sorta is that of a Vassarite. She simply isn't that sorta girl. Newcomer Mark Stevens plays with likable, plain dignity. The attention to veterans and their employment problems is by no means sugarcoated; and when the city itself, or the crummier aspects of its life, dominate the screen, the picture has vigor, beauty and authenticity...
...ready to take their A.B. and B.S. degrees, and graduates of the professional schools make plans to accept M.A.'s and Ph.D.'s. another group of 15 hard-working Joe Hills, also rounding out their course at the University this month, just as eagerly look forward to receiving a plain certificate and a letter...
...Teheran, Premier Ahmed Gavam announced a "complete agreement" with Moscow covering departure of the Red Army, a Russo-Iranian oil company with the Soviets holding 51% control, and direct Teheran-Azerbaijan negotiations as "an internal Iranian affair." The tie-in was as plain, if not as pretty, as a Persian poet's metaphors...