Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact seemed planted firmly in the minds of the British: Mohandas K. Gandhi, long the darling of leftists and liberals, was either pro-Japanese or a plain traitor. When Sir Stafford Cripps set out five months ago to offer India a new deal, possibly self-government, but at least postwar dominion status, the public was aroused to the tremendous issues involved. Pros & cons were hotly discussed, with the pros in the majority. Last week the British were in no such liberal mood...
...legal acreage of wheat was launched last week by Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard. He was too tactful to say that war has turned the 55,000,000-acre minimum allotment fixed by law into a white elephant (TIME, June 22), but what he did say was nonetheless plain English...
Sensible, white-topped Elmer Davis, who is gradually taking charge of some matters that vex the U.S. people, used some plain and sensible language to tell off one of last week's chief people-vexers. He wrote to Boss James Caesar Petrillo of the American Federation of Musicians...
...Facts are plain, although some of them have recently been obscured...
...best and most beautiful in all that was most immediately useful to a rural civilization. The work of men's hands became "a common language of hand and eye," with marked divergences of idiom-the New Englander's "downright pleasure in stripped forms and beautifully finished plain surfaces," the more complex art of figurehead carving, the decorative designs of the Pennsylvania Germans which (derived from the manuscript paintings of medieval monasteries) gave expression to "all the great ceremonial relationships...