Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skirmishing was brisk. Young Philip Willkie, elected to the Indiana legislature, suggested a national convention in 1949 to formulate a new program. Said New Hampshire's Senator Charles Tobey: "Instead of being forever against everything, the party must once in a while be in favor of the plain interests of the people...
Already assured of a 3?-an-hour increase from his cost-of-living contract with General Motors, Walter Reuther made it plain that he would not be satisfied with any such driblets. Said he: "We're talking already about a fourth round. If you haven't heard about it already, you will hear about it next week. There's no question that the workers are due for another increase...
Many a professional specialist had begun to wonder whether the Dow theory, a useful barometer in less stormy times, had not outlived its usefulness. Nowadays the market is subject to more unpredictable political and economic pressures and plain frights than it felt in the years when the theory was being worked out and "proved." For example, only a month after the theory signaled a bull market in May, the Berlin blockade sent prices skittering down again, although business got better & better...
Christ appears in the novel as a worker of miracles, a preacher whom multitudes follow without quite knowing why. Dr. Douglas' characters, aside from Peter, are usually plain people who have heard something of the story, and who are interested, hopeful, puzzled or skeptical in their response to the message that the kingdom of God is within them...
When the MIT trigger-man reached for the detonator, he was seized by a plain-clothesman from the Brighton police force, which had been called in by the HAA Thursday...