Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stopped kidding itself. The hard facts were plain enough now: dollars alone would not stop the Russians. But realization was one thing. Doing something about it was another. The urgent question for the U.S. now was: Where do we go from here...
Other ripples from the Czech crisis last week reached Brussels, where five Western European nations made rapid progress toward a defensive military alliance. All over Western Europe politicians and plain people were talking unity-military, economic and political...
Published this week is a new version of The Cloud of Unknowing (Harper; $1.50) -this time an "interpretation" by an anonymous student at a Quaker center. Greatly abridged and rearranged, the language of the new version is pared down to plain English as spare as a Friends' meetinghouse. The result is far less colorful than the conventional editions but perhaps more useful to the modern reader...
...second chin was beginning to show. Joe rode to the House of Commons in a borrowed Rolls-Royce, listened to about 30 minutes of debate ("I got there in the middle and I didn't quite understand it. ... I couldn't hear it too plain...
Psychiatrists conclude that he fled Germany because he felt his isolation from his fellow Nazis growing. But plain citizens will get little help from this book in spotting psychopaths who may become leaders. Even in countries where there are still ballot boxes, political candidates do not yet throw their psychiatric case histories into the ring along with their hats...