Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trumans will not be in the White House this summer. They plan to be in their old home at Independence, Mo., make it the summer White House; everyone but the President hoped to get there in early June. There, in the big, plain, high-ceilinged rooms, they planned to resume their old, informal way of life during the hot months. (Independence would be no cooler than Washington.) Said Margaret: "I just want to spend the summer sleeping." But there was already evidence that things would be a little different-motorists drove down Independence's North Delaware St. to gaze...
...what was perhaps more important. Harry Truman had made it plain that he is not mad at anybody, an attitude which he further delineated by inviting both Thomas E. Dewey and Alfred Landon to confer with him "any time they might be in Washington." Harry Truman seemed determined to use all U.S. brains, of whatever party. Was he paving the way to a new U.S. "era of good feeling...
People were getting bored and a little impatient with the San Francisco conference. The goal-security-was so plain and good that the difficulties in drafting a charter seemed remote, artificial, vexingly technical and hard to understand...
...some, perhaps, there was still something incongruous in the idea of Harry Truman being one of the Big Three. No such feelings animated the Russian soldiers who prepared the platform for the U.S.-Soviet victory celebration in Germany (see cut). And to plain citizens everywhere, looking at a map of the world's trouble spots, the urgency of a Big Three meeting was abundantly apparent (see INTERNATIONAL...
Albert Einstein, whose relativity theory is commonly supposed to be beyond the grasp of plain citizens, wrote a layman's "explanation" in 1916. Excerpt...