Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When a plain U.S. citizen faces a U.S. Congressional quiz, the ensuing scene is apt to resemble a medieval inquisition. When a poet undergoes the same ordeal, it is more likely to resemble murder. Last week, lank, sallow, liberal Poet Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress and one of Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius' new team of assistants, was almost bumped off by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...borrowed strength from the south to mount their offensive in the north (see above). Last week U.S. Lieut. General Jacob Devers found weak spots in the Vosges mountains of northern Alsace, quickly seized the chance to invade Germany in his south-to-north assault aimed at the western Rhineland plain...
...hurry to destroy Budapest (but many of its famed landmarks were in the center of raging fires). But stubby, square-faced Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky did appear to be in a hurry to get over the fringe of mountains north of the city and on to the plain that led to both Bratislava (Slovakia's capital) and Vienna. Sweeping around Budapest, he made swift progress, cut over the Slovak border into Ipolysag (Sahy), only some 80 miles from Bratislava. To the northeast, more of Malinovsky's men advanced in hard fighting through the last gaps...
This year's coveted first prize in the Carnegie Institute's annual painting exhibition went to Yasuo Kuniyoshi, 51-year-old Japanese-born Manhattanite, for his delicate, deft, still-life fantasy. Room no. Last week the votes of the plain gallery-goers were finally added up, revealing as the people's choice a billowing farmscape with a threatening sky. Grey and Gold, by John Rogers Cox, 28-year-old former director of the Swope Gallery at Terre Haute...
...prospects of a longer war, and a postponement of the uncertainties of reconversion, were not the only shoulders holding up the market. The plain fact was that there was plenty of idle money and the things which it could buy were becoming fewer & fewer. There was no place for it to go but into the market...