Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain fact was that the people everywhere, not caring much who got what, sensing that both higher wages and higher prices were in the air, wanted labor and industry to get back into production on almost any terms. This mood was reflected by the people's representatives in Congress, where U.A.W.'s R. J. Thomas and G.M.'s Charles Wilson were both roundly mussed up at a hearing by Senators Morse and Taft, impatient of stubbornness on both sides...
TIME elevated him and time will relegate him to "plain food, whiskey-&-water and lodge meetings...
...week's end the hearing had made plain what history had demonstrated pitilessly many times before: commanders who would avoid suspicion and controversy must also avoid military disaster...
...Curley invited his friends to his home in Jamaica Plain for an informal reception, and they followed him out in a long and noisy motorcade. His comment on the unfortunate happenings in Washington: "It's just one of those things...
Each week 4,000-odd letters like these pour into the office of plain-speaking Dr. Ralph W. Sockman of the National Radio Pulpit. Rated by volume of fan mail. Methodist Sockman of Park Avenue's swank Christ Church is No. 1 Protestant radio pastor of the U.S.* Since good, grey, Congregationalist S. Parkes Cadman pioneered the field in 1923, radio religion has become a national institution, is preached to an estimated congregation of ten million...