Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor Thomas E. Dewey's plain-spoken acceptance speech, an extraordinarily clear and promising beginning to a U.S. political campaign and, notable for its tone of sensible restraint, gave the first indication of what kind of campaign he might be expected to make...
Despite the cloud of censorship, the reassurances of British officialdom, the casual gibes of high hearted correspondents and the absurdity of German propaganda claims, the robot bomb attack on southern England showed plain signs that it might grow from a major nuisance into a minor menace...
North of these ports was the Arno River and the German "Gothic" line, largely backed by the Appenines. The weak point was Rimini, in flat land on the Adriatic. If the Allies broke through at Rimini, they could fan out into the Emilian plain, flank the entire line. That would end the Germans in Italy...
Arjuna and Krishna. The Gitā is just as timely as it was 2,000 years ago, for it opens with the problem of the righteous man's attitude toward war. Drawn up on the historic plain of Kurukshetra, on chariots, elephants, horses and afoot, were thousands of Indian warriors. They had assembled to fight a battle to decide who should rule a kingdom. Arjuna was the rightful contender, and Krishna, in person, was with him on the vast plain...
...people's ceaseless attempts to fill all the chinks and crannies through which the innumerable misfortunes of life might enter. The life of Joseph's mind, supple, varied, quick, humorous, was a constant preoccupation with religious problems so difficult that their very statement is tedious to the plain reader. Thomas Mann makes it plain that Joseph was a great religious poet. For, among many other things, Mann's Joseph is a portrait of the artist as a God-guided egoist...