Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hitch was that the U.S. Senate's Small Business Committee took a dim view of the deal. It had just taken the committeemen five months to find out its terms, and they doubted its value to the U.S. Ambassador Wrong's dream boat would not have plain sailing...
...Laughter. He was reassuring. He hinted strongly that he could reach a peaceful settlement in his present negotiations with the radio networks. FM? Television? He was "keeping an open mind on those questions." He made it plain that James Caesar Petrillo had a heart which beat for the public. He and his musicians were perfectly willing to make records for home phonographs; they refused only because 20% of the product was used by radio stations and jukeboxes without payment of royalties to the musician or the union...
...into the University of Oklahoma law school. The Court, which made up its mind in an almost unprecedented hurry, had told the State of Oklahoma to give Ada an education equal to what whites get (TIME, Jan. 19). And at least one of the judges made it plain that a law school for just one pupil is no legal education at all. But this week the Oklahoma state regents established a school of law at Oklahoma City (as part of Langston University for Negroes), to be open by next Monday. Whether this step would satisfy the U.S. Supreme Court...
...printed for the first time the letter Mark wrote to Olivia ("Livy") Langdon three weeks before their marriage in 1870: "I ceased from profanity because Mrs. Fairbanks [a friend] desired it. I stopped drinking strong liquors because you desired it. I stopped drinking all other liquors because it seemed plain that you desired it. I did what I could to learn to leave my hands out of my pantaloon pockets and quit lolling at full length in easy chairs, because you desired it. There was no sacrifice about any of these things...
Getting more specific, the new journal concludes that "Norwegian moccasins is the latest report from Harvard," and "At Harvard they wear brilliant Argyle socks, or the plain color ribs." Button-down shirts and gray flannels get the expected not also as part of the typical Cambridge costume...