Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common man, he put his trust in the common people. "The men and women who made this country great and who kept it free," he said, "were plain people with courage and faith. Let us justify this heritage...
...blunt truth is that the men nearest [the President] do not have enough brains, and have practically none of the wisdom which comes from experience and education, to help him to be the President of the United States. . . . There is an American myth and legend . . . that the 'plain people' like mediocre men in their government. . . . This is a politicians' fable. . . . The cult of mediocrity, which is a form of inverted snobbery, is not democracy. It is one of the diseases of democracy...
...there were still a few citizens wondering whether his journey had been sentimental or just plain foolhardy...
...proved it by injecting stable rats with adrenalin, which increases blood sugar. Result: all of them became susceptible to fits. Reporting in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, Lacey carefully avoided jumping to one possible conclusion: that some of the psychological maladjustments of human beings may be caused by plain faulty metabolism-in short, that unhealthy bodies cause unhealthy minds...
...peacetime terms, as in the final analysis, it was the battle of the compromising democrat against the implacable Left. And in this conflict the democrat was under severe handicaps. Some of the handicaps were self-imposed. In the democracies, pundits and plain people alike were simply afraid of using the four-letter words of contemporary politics. They refused to recognize or admit that the Left was indeed implacable-as it was in Russia or in the words of Britain's Harold Laski. Like the notion of sex in a previous generation, this thought was too dangerous, or too horrible...