Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought it would be no more than the cost of the present price-support program (an estimated $860 million this fiscal year, an unpredictable part of which may be recouped in later years by the Government in sales of stored surpluses). But for those who liked their arithmetic plain, the answer seemed too familiar. It looked as if the rabbit might save the consumer some money on his bills, but it also seemed inevitable that he would have to pay it back to the Government on income-tax day-and a great deal more besides, if bureaucracy ran true...
Flaming Silhouettes. Neighbors awakened by screams and the tinkling crash of breaking windows, ran out to stare into a nightmare. St. Anthony's a plain, white-trimmed brick building, had stood in Effingham for 73 years; it was the only hospital in the county and its white-garbed Franciscan nuns had tended generations of the aged and the injured, the newborn and the dying. Now flame flickered and glared from behind almost every window and silhouetted frantic figures-nuns, nurses, patients in hospital gowns...
...Plain Yugoslavs were feeling the pinch of the U.S.S.R.'s blockade, but most were still eating better than their Russian comrades. The West was quietly giving Tito limited economic assistance. A French trade delegation arrived in Belgrade last week, joining U.S. and British engineers who are helping Tito build some steel plants. The U.S. State Department let it be known that Yugoslavia fitted into "the general picture" of American trade...
...biggest items in the budget were expenditures for defense and cradle-to-the-grave social security. Cripps smashed the rosy Socialist dream that the "welfare state" could be paid for entirely by soaking the rich. The rich were now all but soaked, and it was Britain's plain people who would have to pay for their "free" medical and social services. They would pay through high taxation and higher prices...
...down buildings, Muroc is not an attractive place to live. But for the test pilots like Chuck, who do not have to live on the post, it is not too bad. The mountain-ringed desert, with its mourning Joshua trees, has a kind of austere beauty. On its broad plain are little oases - alfalfa farms kept green by diesel-pumped water. There is hunting and riding. When these rural pleasures pall, Los Angeles is only 70 miles away (eleven minutes as the jet flies...