Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tribune-hating Chicago Sun generously allowed that the committee had chosen well from a narrowing field: "It's harder and harder to find a man who will come right out. . . for plain, unadulterated dog-in-the-manger jingoism...
...keep on going up, some shrewd ones had kept a way out open: the short interest was now close to 1,000,000 shares, the highest in five years. The greater market activity this year was bound to increase the short interest. But to Wall Streeters the meaning was plain: a dangerously large number of persons think the 14-month bull market is in for some stormy weather...
Promptly, Newton sat down with mine operators, then with John L. Lewis. One fact Newton made plain: as deputy coal administrator he has no jurisdiction over wages, no power to make a contract with mineworkers...
Because the King was not there, it was Queen Elizabeth, in a plain grey dress prettied with orchids, who from the dais of Buckingham Palace's Grand Hall be stowed decorations on Empire heroes-first among them R.A.F. Wing Commander Guy Gibson, leader of dam-destroying planes over Germany. Possessor of letters patent making her one of five Councilors of State during the King's Mediterranean tour, the Queen said to Gibson: "The King has asked me to say how sorry he is not to be able to give the Victoria Cross to you personally...
...energized reporters called every politician they knew, gravely informed them that Booker T. Washington Day was passing uncelebrated. (They explained to doubters that Booker T. was the "founder of the American Newspaper Guild.") By mid-afternoon 64 quarts of assorted liquor, one case of champagne, scores of politicos, plain-clothes men and plain people had arrived. The party was a magnificent success...