Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What made the Party crisis important not just to politicians but to plain people was the deepening need for leadership in the land. The President's leadership had been repudiated again & again by Congress, and the people's only answer to complaints from the White House about Congress was to send more & more Republicans to Washington, to repudiate that leadership further...
...plain evidence of the need was the abnormal national interest, nine months before Election Day, in the doings and movements of politicians. Almost in spite of itself, with a kind of shuddering fascination, the people daily absorbed an amount of political news unprecedented for the February before the conventions...
Dancing--and just plain listening by the aficionados--starts at 8 P.M. Fridays and Saturdays, with no cover, no minimum. The soldiers backing the band trust that their fellow servicement and Harvard undergraduates will figure that they're going SOMEWHERE for a few drinks on Saturday nights--so why not help out their colleagues by making the Copley Squares Hop Scotch Room...
Earned Repose. He had earned his rest. Few men can ever have gone through more plain hell trying to find a place in the special hell of battle. Ben Kuroki's father was a seed-potato grower in Hershey, Neb., a town of about 500 people. Ben and his kid brother Fred (now overseas with an engineer outfit) volunteered for the Army two days after Pearl Harbor, were accepted a month later. Ben landed in the Air Forces and started to run his personal gantlet at Sheppard Field...
...Englishmen) and often etymologies. The DAE's weakness in unprinted language may be connected with a reluctance to include unprintable language, for the great U.S. contributions to invective and bawdry are gravely slighted. The DAE's scholarly scope is enormous, and Editor Craigie recognizes the role of plain people in making speech. But in many vital respects Henry Louis Mencken, now at work on his fifth edition of The American Language, can still show the way to the professors...