Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Summer's onset trapped many a U.S. vacationist flat on his own front porch. The plain citizen was marooned at home, with a well-stuffed wallet. He had plenty of easy-come money to be easygoing with, and not a thrilling thing to spend...
This V-12 business had made a difference right there, he noted as he reached the House. The fellows standing around the janitor's office had no stripes on theirs--just plain black neckerchiefs. The only variations in the blue and black color scheme were on the sleeve or in the splash of color above the breast pocket...
When the American and British crews did strike, they ranged widely. They again raided the Naples docks. They flew over Sicily's western plain, an obvious point of amphibious invasion. They left their bomb-pocks on the hilly but approachable southern coast. They crossed the central plateau, which looks mountainous on the map but is a region of high wheat fields. They roared above the lemon and orange groves of the precipitous northern coast. On the port of Messina, the chief point of entry for supplies from the mainland, they dumped the biggest Sicilian bomb loads. (But none down...
...general call for plain talk in high places came from Barnard College's veteran Dean Virginia Gildersleeve. She wondered why the New York City War Council felt it necessary to say: "Illumination is required to be extinguished before these premises are closed to business...
...which bought the huge hotel (world's largest) as a training school only six months ago, now reversed itself and put it up for sale. Chicago innkeepers forthwith went into a deep dither over the "economic disaster' they would suffer if the Stevens came back into competition. Plain citizens went into a dither over what seemed to be Army stupidity, grade...