Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friendship Train was only a klieg-lighted symbol of year-round generosity. Since January, individual U.S. citizens have been voluntarily giving more than $12 million a month for European relief through private agencies. Out of human sympathy, plain Americans were giving plenty of evidence that their hearts were as big as their purses...
...establish a colony on Chirote, a jungle isle 20 miles off the coast of Panama. ¶ In Manhattan, the nation's cage-bird breeders held their fourth national show with 2,021 entries, mostly canaries, including such varieties as curly feathered frills, big Norrich plain-heads. An Indian hill myna, who will outtalk a parrot any day, welcomed visitors with: "Hello, Joe! You can go to hell, too." ¶ Twenty men wearing American Legion caps burst into the La Crescenta, Calif, home of retired Fruit Grower Hugh Hardyman, who was holding a meeting of the local Democratic Club...
Among the plain people, ripples of cold fear ran up & down Italy's long spine. TIME Correspondent Emmet Hughes cabled from Naples: "In a café on the Via Medina, I asked the sad, round-faced proprietor behind the marble counter how afraid he was. His stubbly chin trembled and the watery blue eyes seemed ready to gush tears as he said, 'Of course I'm afraid. How many Italians have to die? You Americans killed some. The Germans killed others. Now it seems we're going to kill each other. We've got poverty...
Kite Flying Resumed. Last spring Phibun entered Bangkok's municipal kite flying contest. To Siamese, this was a perfectly plain sign that he was coming out of political retirement. His personal astrologer, Chalaem, had found that Phibun's stars indicated rising power from March 26 onward. Phibun opened his pine-shaded bungalow in Bangkok's suburbs. There he told the press: "I was fed up with retirement, so I bought kites. But kite flying is not so interesting as politics. ... I am forming a new party with the slogan, 'Right Is Might...
...finally come. The dry weather had ill portents for the grain crop, but if Porteños were worried, they did not show it. The city's parks, well shaded with ombú, palm, ceiba, and shiny-leafed magnolias, were crowded with lovers, fashionable ladies with fashionable dogs, plain people out for a stroll. Many a piropeador audibly admired the spring styles which spurned the New Look and kept legs before the male eye. Buenos Aires cemeteries, always a favored gathering place for somber Argentines, were unusually crowded, and tombs were cluttered with waxy calla lilies...