Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time that farm prices are stabilized, I will stabilize wages. [To Congress his promise was even stronger: 'This I will do.'] This is plain justice and plain common sense. I have asked the Congress to take this action by the first of October...
Britain's soldiers stood in their classic and indomitable position: with their backs against the wall. West of Suez there was no other place to make a stand. Behind them was Cairo, capital of Egypt; the delta of the Nile, a great plain as large as Vermont, crisscrossed with irrigation canals; Alexandria, last major British naval base in the eastern Mediterranean. All that stood between Rommel and Suez was General Sir Harold (Rupert Leofric George) Alexander's Eighth Army. If it failed, then, in the words of one U.S. Army official last week, "God help...
Through the harrying complexity of his problems his nerves remain under control. He is never tempted to go out and get drunk (never took a drink in his life), doesn't smoke and lives on in athlete's diet of plain food (favorites: hamburger, chicken, green corn, fresh vegetables and no sauce of any kind). Moreover every day he is out for a long walk, every Sunday morning in church. All this is very nearly incredible, considering the incredible Serfor job, chief parts of which...
...past few weeks this column has recommended Sabby Lewis, Bill Davison, and now Frankie Newton. Consider that in ascending order. All three bands play entirely different music: swing, Chicago jazz, and just plain jazz; but Newton's superiority is undeniable. Tonight he reopens at the Savoy with only Vic Dickenson, trombone, left over from the previous engagement. It is unnecessary to predict whether the present band is better or worse, as the presence of Frankie and Vic will assure you of good jazz. They have their off-nights, it's true, but if you've heard Frankie at his best...
...designer was a plain-monickered Manhattan interior decorator named Dan Cooper. Affable, barrel-chested Designer Cooper spent years buying and selling Tudor chairs and Louis XIV sofas. Then he decided that what the restless U.S. needed, to beat the high cost of moving vans, was capsule furniture. His credo: "What the heck do we need in the way of furniture? We need a place to sit, to sleep, to put our personal possessions into or on top of, to eat, to write and play games." Trade-named Pakto, the Cooper capsules are manufactured by North Carolina's Drexel Furniture...