Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were both practically flunking a "journalism" course at San Diego State College, I can guarantee it was not because she was dull. In fact, I view with alarm your report that at the age of 18 (see cut) she was a "thin, dried-up little girl who was very plain." Not so. She was a very satisfactory armful. . . . JAMES CRENSHAW Herald and Express Los Angeles
...point squarely at Russia. But no one misunderstood him. His meaning was plain. It became even plainer with the disclosure by William Lyon Mackenzie King (see CANADA) of the busyness of Russian espionage...
...Stoyan Gavrilovic arrived from London. "Greenwich," he sniffed, "is a very small area. I think we can do very nicely without it." He went farther. Any other protests from the rolling Westchester-Connecticut commuters' paradise would also be considered. But he still made it plain that UNO hoped to settle in that general area...
...over the rural U.S., the alarm spread: the gaily printed cotton flour sack, time-tested foundation of the nation's farm fashions, was going out with the white flour. According to the crossroad rumors, the recent dark-flour order (see BUSINESS) had caused U.S. millers to substitute plain muslin, disdainfully stamped EMERGENCY FLOUR, for the gay old bags...
...Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of New York, liberal, plain-spoken president of the U.S. Federal Council of Churches...