Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Road? The plain citizen watched these and other uproars on the labor scene with helpless anger and dismay. Was this the road to reconversion, 60,000,000 jobs and all the other fine promises of peace...
...Plain Citizens. The wage earner also needed encouragement. Said the Finance Minister: "Our present high personal income tax [is] discouraging work and initiative in all groups at a time when we need a rapid expansion of employment and a willing mobility of labor. . . . I recognize that . . . wartime taxation has begun to blunt incentives." Therefore, personal income taxes would be cut 16%, retroactive...
...sedate Letters-to-the-Editor columns of the New York Times are usually stiff with sesquipedalian discussions of such matters as the U.S. debt and the minority problem in Macedonia. It is a forum that attracts Supreme Court justices, ambassadors and college presidents. But occasionally, as last week, a plain, ordinary person sounds off on a really universal theme...
...newly elected tenth president of the University of Illinois is a man accustomed to using plain words. Last week some of them boomeranged back...
Kiss and Tell (Columbia), from the Broadway hit play of two years ago, makes it fairly plain that parents cause more trouble than they're worth. But the film preaches so good-naturedly to its text that even parents shouldn't mind putting the price of admission in the plate...