Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fleischaker just claims plain ordinary membership in the Ornithological Club, the Classical Club, the Caisson Club, the Outing Club, the Anti Peace-Strike Committee, Union New Harvard Chapter, and the staff of the R.O.T.C. magazine, the Observation Post. Last fall he played football for Eliot House...
Shocked as they were by such plain and pessimistic speaking, millions of Britons nevertheless agreed that their Government's inaction was a national humiliation. Critics of the Government did not know whether an invasion of the Continent was possible or not. But they feared that Britain's leadership, even if it were able to, did not want to make such an invasion...
Madness, Folly, Suicide. Gauging the rising tide of dissatisfaction, the Government commissioned a spokesman, Colonial Secretary Lord Moyne, to speak plain truth to the British people. But Lord Moyne could tell Britain none of the many facts that Britons ached to hear: what was being sent to Russia, how great a striking force Britain had to throw against the thin 40 German divisions in the West, how much shipping would be needed for an invasion and how much was available...
...There is no use in a fox terrier's trying to kick an elephant's teeth out. Any man would be a plain damn fool to come into Kansas City and try to fight the Star. We intend to be the second paper, but we intend to be a profitable second paper...
Exactly why A.T. & T. stockholders were so reckless was a Wall Street mystery. Many of them ignored the letter sent with the bulky, legally worded prospectus, got no "job-up" letter to enlighten them (something A.T. & T. is neither obliged nor forbidden to do). Another reason was plain carelessness. The rights expired on the Labor Day weekend, when many a shareholder was more interested in golf than gilt-edged bonds...