Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Things Went Black. Three hours later, the Russian consulate in New York invited newspapers to send men to an unprecedented press conference. As soon as reporters walked in, it was plain who had gotten Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina. She was in custody of Jacob M. Lomakin, the handsome, blackhaired Soviet consul general. She was a plump, nervous-looking, middle-aged woman who wore a floppy-sleeved blouse, a black skirt, turquoise-colored bobbysocks, and red shoes. Lomakin announced, happily, that she had endured a rare ordeal and that she was about to describe it-through an interpreter, of course...
...Howard once said: "It's a paper with a heart." The heart beats strongly enough to make the Press the healthiest in the chain; the profit is $2,000,000 a year. For ten years the Press (now 280,000 daily) has run ahead of the Plain Dealer (255,000) and News...
...dealing with proposals to abolish or restrict capital punishment, the Labor government has looked like a comedian tangled up in flypaper. The House of Lords and the plain people (69% of them, according to an opinion poll) want hanging kept as the penalty for murder. A majority in the Laborite House of Commons wants it abolished...
...burns in Italian minds more vividly than any other calamity of the. war. Day after day black-clad men & women, carrying huge bundles of flowers, trudge up a barren hill six miles south of Rome to the dismal caverns, where candles burn day & night by rows and rows of plain pine coffins...
...shih is not the name he started with, either. Many years ago, he was plain Ch'ih Huang, a carpenter's apprentice from Hunan. After work one day he collected some shrimps, crabs, crickets, and tiny bugs, and put them all into a glass box. "I observed these creatures with my eye," says he, "and put them into my heart." One by one, he painted their "portraits"; and one by one, to his great surprise, he sold what he had painted...