Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual Miles River Regatta, held off St. Michaels, a crabbing port on Maryland's Eastern Shore, is as plain as an old scow. Yachtsmen have been known to row up to the dock in their underwear, wander into the best pub in town wearing pajama pants and a battered silk hat. Ashore, some 5,000 folks loll around in shirt sleeves, suck Popsicles, guzzle beer, chase small fry who get lost in the crowd...
...dramatic pause in Stalin's speech, the sound of a liquid being poured into a glass near the microphone could be distinctly heard. Tea happens to be the fluid with which Stalin eases his throat when he speaks publicly. He doesn't care much for plain water...
Jean Knox's advancement had been spectacular. In three years she rose from the rank of happy housewife, cooking and sewing for her R.A.F. squadron-leader husband and her 14-year-old daughter in her country home in Hertfordshire, first to plain volunteer, then to Chief A.T.S. Recruiter, then to idea-woman, inspecting camps, grooming lady officers, clearing up gaffs such as the male Army command referring to A.T.S. passes: "Members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service will show their pink forms whenever called upon to do so." Last week, as Chief Controller, she became Britain's top-ranking...
...have meaning. Though they are scarcely 20 years gone, its violent events, against the vast implacabilities which devour that same earth now, have the minute, archaic beauty of actions seen through a reversed telescope: Cossack fighting was an affair of horses, hard riding and sabers. But as a plain story of a man, a family, and a people during war, this novel has the high, nerved vividness that such Soviet films as Shors have given to that same passionate, fading scrap of history...
Last week the press and one lawyer put the State of Missouri to shame. When the Legislature finally adjourned, they made it plain that the last legislative session was the worst, dirtiest, most brazenly corrupt in Missouri history...