Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, more than two years after his retirement, in the plain, bare apartment where he had lived for 25 years with the wife he was devoted to, Louis Brandeis died, at 84. Next day the new Supreme Court met for the first session of its first term under a new Chief Justice. Harlan Fiske Stone is a man who solidly stands behind the solid words of Louis Brandeis: "[The makers of the Constitution] conferred, "as against the Government, the right to be let alone-the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized...
Except for one brief interval, she had been there since 1921-for murder. Lyda's face was still plain but pleasant. Grey just tinged her bronze hair. Her memories and her 49 years sat very lightly...
...they neared Changsha, the Japanese dropped parachutists, signaled their plain-clothes men within the city. Japanese infantry penetrated the gates, raided the city. But they were tired. Sensing the moment, General Hsueh ordered a counterattack. Back snapped the bowstring, the Japanese with it. Foreign correspondents, whom the Japanese had summoned to witness a victory, saw from Japanese planes long columns of Japanese troops retreating...
Like U.S. artists in general, to whom they have a strong family resemblance, the Australians were short on abstractions and surrealist nightmares, showed a preference for plain pictures of the barren mountains, weedy gum trees, drab sheep barns and sprawling Victorian mansions of their native landscape. Like U.S. artists they were good water-colorists. Like U.S. Middle and Far Western artists of a generation ago, the Australians had learned most of their tricks from the 19th-Century French Barbizon landscapists, showed that they had been too busy pioneering to develop a distinct tradition of their own. The Australia they painted...
...this was just a sign that Daughter Alicia is a member in good standing of the Patterson-McCormick family, a clan of determined individualists. From her paper it has long been plain that she is no isolationist, but as she says: "Father and I are still very great friends." They do not attempt to reconcile their editorial difference. ("We just don't talk about it.") Meantime she goes on reviewing books for her father's Sunday News. ("It gives me a chance to get a lot of reading done that I wouldn't do otherwise...