Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notion that the Republican Party would win almost by default. Like an aggressive general, he had seized the offensive at a time and place of his own choosing. If anyone had thought that the President would fight a hopeless delaying action against the Dewey panzers, it was now plain as a tank track that Harry Truman meant to go down fighting...
Texas, of course, has its fair share of demagogues, rabble rousers and just plain exhibitionists, many of whom are continually running for office. They thrive and prosper on just such free publicity as you have given Windmill Lyndon Johnson [TIME, June...
There is a theory that there are not only neutrinos but "anti-neutrinos." When the two meet, they annihilate one another. Dr. Gamow suggests, with bated breath, that neutrino-annihilation may result in the emission of "gravitational waves." In plain language, the mysterious neutrino and the waves it gives off in dying may keep everything and everybody from flying off into space...
...reasons were plain. The defense program needed only about 2% of anticipated steel production this fiscal year, and will need less than 3% in the following. For the sake of efficiency, the President assigned the job of filling such relatively small needs to the Department of Commerce, which is already supervising a number of voluntary programs, instead of to the Secretary of Defense, as he could have done under the new law. But he warned: "I have given serious consideration to the problems posed by this legislation. I am, of course, prepared to exercise this authority should it prove necessary...
Most U.S. industries last week had a price wolf by the ears. For the cement industry, a way to get rid of him seemed relatively plain. Bowing to a Federal Trade Commission order recently upheld by the Supreme Court (TIME, May 10), Universal Atlas Cement Co., largest cement maker in the U.S., last week grudgingly gave up its basing-point system of pricing. The company called the order "economically unsound and wrong," but it announced that it would sell henceforth at prices f.o.b. its plants; freight costs would be applied to the buyer's bill. Smaller cement companies promptly...