Word: plain
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Five to six hundred leaves of all kinds of bread must be provided daily for the whole University by the College Bakery located under Eliot next to the College Kitchens. Here also is prepared all the plain and fancy pastries which appear on the tables in the dining halls, cookies, pies, rolls, and many fancy desserts...
...vitriolic diatribes against him-mostly in private-or to joshing him as a sort of Don Quixote, this also privately. . . ." Even as Thomas Stokes wrote these words, the private antagonisms-of isolationists, of Old Guard tories, of party professionals who hate upstarts, of good, sincere Republicans who just plain could not figure what sort of creature Wendell Willkie was-were coming out in the open...
...good friends in the G.O.P.'s high places. In other States (notably Oregon, Washington, much of New England) his friends were in control: at the recent St. Louis convention, 21 of the 106 Republican committeemen were definitely on his side, and another 19 voted with them. But the plain fact was that a potent majority-including many a pre-Philadelphia Willkieite like Colorado's Governor Ralph L. Carr-now opposed him. If he ever wanted to be the Republican candidate for President again, he would have a hard and discouraging...
...Willkie's accomplishment was dimmed by his failure to command the firm support of his party (see p. 18), and the plain fact was that in 1942, a year of war, men of good will had no achievements to match those of men of arms and men of power...
...hundred years ago, one of the first credit correspondents in the U.S. reported to the Mercantile Agency that Peddler James Sampson "drinks two glasses of cider brandy [applejack], plain, every morning and evening-never more; has lost a large double tooth on lower jaw, back, second from throat on left side; has a scar an inch long on his left leg kneepan; cause: cut himself with a hatchet when only three years old." Credit sleuths have been weighing financial responsibility with the most intimate details of a man's personal life ever since...