Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same salad appears almost every noon out of the central kitchen. It is not really a salad at all, but just plain chopped up lettuce. Merely leaving it whole once in a while, or throwing in a cucumber, would buoy the spirits of the dinners. Boiled potatoes doubtless easy to prepare--also appear too often. A potato costs no more mashed than boiled. Why not mash it once in a while...
Mukden is subzero country at this season. A ragged blanket of snow spreads over the surrounding plain; canals and streams are ice. The wind cuts through the warmest clothes. Yet there seemed to be less spiritual desolation in Mukden this week than when I saw it under Russian rule in February 1946, after the Soviet rape of Manchuria's industry. A lot of people can muster a smile now. But nobody could find cause for confidence; the Chinese talked of cold homes, high and rising prices, the failing electricity supply. Seven provincial governors wait to enter provinces which...
...warhorses--apathy, procrastination, plain indifference--can be trotted out to explain the pitifully low returns. And the new rationalizations--late veterans checks, post-Yale poverty, plain forgetfulness--can very easily be used to explain away neglect of pledges. Five thousand dollars worth of these pledges are still unfulfilled, and, in a last-minute drive to catch up with wayward pledge-makers, the Council has offered an easy out--contributions from University coupon books. Lack of ready cash is no longer an adequate plea. The Council's Service Fund relieves everyone from the irk-some chore of wallet-reaching or door...
Most Sears, Roebuck & Co. stores are plain, functional buildings with big show windows and large, eye-hitting signs. But last week the mail-order chain opened a new store that was a sport; it had only a few small windows and it looked like a citadel in Spain. Its single sign was restrained and inconspicuous...
...documents what was plain even to armchair admirals at the start of the war: that neither Britain nor the U.S. was ready for the U-boats. Readers will feel their hackles rise as Morison shows how close Nazi Admiral Doenitz came to wiping out the supply line from the U.S. to Britain. In the first 6½ months after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy sank just eight subs (the Germans were building that many every ten days); the subs sank 360 merchant ships...