Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spanish-teaching program here in the U.S. (Among them were the Ambassadors of Panama, Venezuela and Uruguay, the Ministers of El Salvador, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, the Consul General of Cuba, several top-ranking radio members of the Rockefeller Committee, and scores of other dignitaries and just plain interested citizens.) And many of them asked if we could not work out a similar program to teach English to the peoples of Latin America...
Were the atrocity stories supposed to help the sale of war bonds? All over the U.S., plain citizens thought so (bond sales zoomed, even doubled for several days after publication). Said Albuquerque's Dr. V. H. Spensley, a dentist whose son died in a Jap prison camp: "I can't understand why such information should be brought out now . . . except to sell bonds. For that purpose it's absolutely rotten. If the morality of America has sunk so low it required this kind of propaganda to sell bonds, we wonder what the boys are fighting...
...truth of that interpretation of the German spirit, a plain German in Sweden testified (see below...
...pollsters were a long time getting their information. Many of them wilted under the sultry Syrian sun and had to be replaced. Arab street addresses were virtually nonexistent. Once the interviewer located his quarry, however, traditional Arab hospitality and their delight in plain conversation made it difficult to get the interview over with quickly. One pollster got away from his client only after absorbing quantities of black coffee and lemonade and promising to accept one of the family's prize black kittens as a token of affection...
...many a decision, the board has made plain that for profit computation it considers as capital only such money as is actually in use or available to a company. The board may turn a cold eye on capital in a trust fund. But Bill Jack is going ahead. He proudly announced that his associates have already offered to pledge $17,000,000, invest another $13,000,000 through weekly pay deductions...