Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horse betting was so high last week that the tipsters looked for a billion-dollar year. The sport had never attracted such throngs of railbirds. In this record year it was dominated by a plain, farm-bred Midwesterner named Jones...
...make these gains, Japan used a small force-probably no more than 50,000 men. But fleets of trucks, mobile cannon, some 600 whippet tanks and armored cars gave this army its winning asset: mobility on the vast Honan plain (in three weeks the Japanese covered some 300 miles...
...Editor La Cossitt is no tyro in his field. Trained at the University of Missouri's journalism school, he was a reporter on the Cleveland Plain Dealer...
...found in the story of any one picture, certainly not in this one. This time Andy (Mickey Rooney) is on his way to Wainright College -a small-town boy, frantically determined to get started right. On the train he becomes flirtatiously embroiled with no less than three blondes, in plain view of his suave future dean (Herbert Marshall), who cruelly chooses to remain incognito...
...Britain's House of Commons a plain question at long last got a plain answer...