Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year term will be the Quirinal Palace, former home of Italy's kings. It is a huge, drafty place, full of heavy furniture, and President Einaudi feared that he would miss the simplicity of his snug little villa on the Via Tuscolana, with its book-lined walls and plain desk. He made a visit of inspection last week. Limping through the high-ceilinged rooms (his leg was injured in 1926 when, after a U.S. lecture tour, he tried to swing aboard a moving Turin streetcar, American fashion), he issued his first orders. A lot of the massive furniture...
Three years ago, soldiers from the Volga and the Mississippi, the Thames and the Loire met by the Spree, in the ruins of a harsh, unlovely city situated on the vast plain on the edge of Europe's Slav lands. The city was Berlin. The soldiers brought to it both fear and hope. Since then, fear has grown like weeds amid the debris; hope has been carted off like rubble. Last week from Berlin, TIME Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes cabled this report...
...city tells us only one thing that is plain: its price is not merely the price of some desperate rubble, or even of three million German lives; it is, in large measure, the going price of freedom in spring, 1948. This great tomb of Naziism (and of the West's brittle illusion that you could do business with Communism) stands on the sad, sandy Brandenburg plain to test, perhaps for all time, the West's will and worth...
...founder of Britain's Labor Party, the late Keir Hardie, was a serious Christian who denounced class warfare. Last week, 77 Labor members of Parliament proved that Hardie's tradition is still very much alive. Calling themselves the "Parliamentary Socialist Christian Group," the 77 published a plain-speaking pamphlet. Its theme: Christians should be in politics, and Labor should be their party...
Died. Arthur Ault, 75, portly, plain-spoken editor of the Lamar, Mo., Democrat; of a heart ailment; in Lamar. He fattened his national reputation (TIME, July 8, 1946) with such unlarded local reporting as "George Phillips is back in the Barton County jail . . . drunk as a lord...