Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pandit Nehru and Industrialists N. H. Tata and G. D. Birla; to Shanghai Mayor K. C. Wu, Siam Premier Phibun Songgram, Oilman B. C. Jones in Dili, Portuguese Timor, 23 subscribers in Zamboanga, one in Tibet; to William Eu (Singapore), Jan de Groot (Batavia), and thousands of other plain citizens...
...shift once estimated as a two-to three-year job. He ordered the Air Force's General Joseph T. McNarney to shake down the hundreds of duplicating and overlapping service boards and agencies. Four days later Johnson wiped out nine service boards as unnecessary. He made it plain that he would stand for "no vying between the services for headlines...
Meanwhile Argentine propaganda had sagged sadly. Sometimes this resulted from plain blunders. Last November an Argentine first secretary was charged with meddling in a military plot in Chile and was hustled out of the country. Pushing diplomats, who "befriended" newspapers and radio stations in Rio, Mexico City and Havana, won few friends...
...port of Callao, the "coke" capital of Peru, the vice is out in the open. Hundreds of peddlers, many of whom are their own best customers, offer a variety of items ranging from the plain leaves to pichicato or la diosa blanca (the white goddess), the drug in its refined form. Snuffing up a pinch of the powder in full view of passers-by last week, one old peddler brazenly solicited customers: "The only danger is that the wind will blow the pichicato away, that...
...lacrosse team ought to keep north of the Charles in spring vacation. It's hard enough to beat Navy and Maryland any time, but in the early spring when the southern teams have had extra practice time as well, it is plain suicide...