Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They staged no preconvention banquets or band concerts. Dewey's No. 1 feminine supporter, tall, grey Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, occupied inconspicuous basement quarters next to the Blackstone Hotel men's washroom. And the Dewey Triumvirate-Jaeckle, Sprague and Brownell-held court in businesslike fashion in a plain and bannerless 25th-floor suite, until Dewey's nomination was cinched...
...Election Year." Last week the pebbles in Minister Lyttelton's mouth were much in evidence. As the context of his words showed and as his explanation made plain, he was trying to pay the U.S. a strong compliment. Because of the U.S. opposition to aggression, he might have worded his praise, the U.S. made plain to Japan long before Pearl Harbor that she must give up her plans of Asiatic domination or fight. The U.S. was aggressive against the aggressors. But Minister Lyttelton's bumbling word "provoke" gave Axis propagandists a field day. Immediately Jap Domei...
...Kappa, only seven of this year's graduates were included in the elections announced on Tuesday. They are John J. Delaney, Jr., of Arlington, Robert H. Drucker, of Wilmette, Ill., Daniel B. Feer, of Brookline, David B. Green, of Brookline, Paul Mandelstam, of Allston, John J. Shea, of Jamaica Plain, and Philip Troen, of Portland, Maine...
...cards, one of which led to food while the other only bruised the rats' tender snouts. Then he switched the cards. Result: the rats became wildly neurotic. When repeatedly frustrated, a rat would throw itself blindly again & again at an unyielding card, even though there was food in plain sight beside...
...blurbed as "the sort of novel Dickens might have written." Victor White's Peter Domanig (704 pages about working-class life in Vienna from 1905 to 1920) was called "one of the classics of aoth Century literature." All such extravagances aside, one fact was plain: both novels were solidly based on the bitter, intense, personal histories of their respective authors...