Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think you see why the suggestion of goosestepping efficiency just plain riles us. For if, as heaven forbid. TIME should ever acquire the sort of phony "efficiency" I've talked about, I can think of only one group who would like it-the teletypesetter operators! They would never have any corrections to make once the first and only Perfect Story...
Tanks swept through to the plain of Tunis - and eventually to the capital - in force never before shown by the Allies in that theater of war. The Germans were caught flat-footed by masterful diversion and overwhelming concentration...
...class struggle" painters (of whom William Gropper is best known), Kootz says: "Gropper, for instance, has never been able to invent a plastic language of his own. . . . The plain fact of the matter is that the radical pattern of this school is as dull esthetically as the reactionary pattern of the nationalist school. Both schools trade in local incidents, the class-struggle boys bellyaching that nothing is good enough, the nationalists insisting that it was good enough for Pop and it is good enough for them. . . . Slice it any way you want and it still comes out a literary tract...
...play - with its repeated slamming of bedroom doors - guys bedroom farce, and a very plain, very sane woman secretary points up the looniness of the artistic temperament...
...moral is plain: last quarter's profits are just about as good (or as bad) as they will be for the duration...