Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then he gave the defense two more days to wind up its challenge, announced that he would tolerate no oral arguments after that, and made it plain that he would overrule the defense unless it changed his mind in the meantime-an eventuality he obviously did not anticipate. Said he: "I thought at one time that perhaps the defense had something...
...made it plain that it was all a matter of passion rather than propaganda, and that she was more to be pitied than censured. When her attorney asked her in courtly tones if she had ever "intended to adhere to the enemy," she replied throatily: "Anyone who knows me knows it isn't true...
...Just plain polo has been back for nearly a year now, but the army polo ponies, the convenient stables, and the well-to-do horse owner aren't coming back. So the polo team became an "away" club, dependent on horses provided by its opponents and hopelessly lacking in local practice facilities...
...chapters in colleges and universities, devoutly followed the party line. It attracted to its rostrums such well-intentioned notables as Edward G. Robinson, Norman Corwin, the late Brigadier General Evans Carlson of Carlson's Raiders. On the campuses, left-wingers, new discoverers of the world of politics and plain Communists joined up. Then, after the war (and the departure of Browder to the darkness reserved for deviationists), things began to change...
...jacked me in for a civvy"; Major Maddison is exulting as his platoon-in-training comes crashing through a barbed-wire obstacle with blood running from their face scratches (and he furtively pins a putative medal to his chest in the secrecy of his room); Colonel Pothecary, a plain man, stumbles warmheartedly through his announcement of the invasion: "Well, my lads. This is it. At last. You know, I'm damned if I know what to say to you . . . Eat when you can, and keep your bowels open...