Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said the President, the statute of limitations should be revised, so that trust-guilty firms could be punished after the war-the threat of prosecution in any post-war witch hunt would be left hanging over businessmen indefinitely. However businessmen might study this gift horse's teeth, the plain fact was that this was the first gift of any kind to business out of the White House, in many a long year...
Five weeks ago, the Beaver jumped or fell from the Churchill Cabinet. The brash baron who was born plain Max Aitken of Canada explained vociferously: "I am simply a sick man needing a rest." He has had bouts of asthma and temperament, inextricably mixed, for years. Between bouts (and during them) he helped convert British industry to wartime production, whooped up aircraft building, slashed British red tape, shocked and angered many an Old School Tie; he stepped up beside Churchill, as Minister of Production, did a whale of a job in upping British war production...
...Supported by President Roosevelt, WPBoss Donald Nelson and Administration leaders, Green & Murray made it plain that they would wage a last-ditch fight for time-and-a-half wages for overtime (more than 40 hours a week) for all war-plant workers...
...caption, "The price of petrol has been increased by one penny" (implying that British seamen were risking their lives to fatten the big corporations). As supporting evidence for his charge, Morrison quoted a paragraph from a Mirror editorial: "The accepted tip for Army leadership would, in plain words, be this: All who aspire to mislead the other in war should be brass-buttoned boneheads, socially prejudiced, arrogant and fussy. A tendency to heart disease, apoplexy, diabetes and high blood pressure is desirable in the highest spots...
...proponent of melodrama in the local room, City Editor Shaw (a graduate summa cum laude of Oberlin, and son of the Plain Dealer's longtime chief editorial writer Archer Shaw) gags when he hears about The Front Page brand of city editor. He made his reputation as a City Hall reporter who had a great knack for making interesting sense of municipal affairs...