Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harold Stassen has set his sights high. Again last week he made it plain that he would not settle for second prize in the presidential sweepstakes. When he was asked if he would take the No. 2 spot on a Republican ticket headed by Generals Ike Eisenhower or Douglas MacArthur, Stassen said firmly: "No, 1 am running for the presidential nomination...
...Democrats, still smarting from their 1946 walloping, were quick to see the beginning of a Democratic boom in the election of Earle C. Clements as governor of Kentucky. The Republicans counter-shouted that throughout the nation they had held the line and consolidated last year's gains. The plain facts of local politics deflated the rodomontades of both sides...
...criticism aimed at the Thomas committee did not come only from the Communists and their confused comrades. The nation's press was almost unanimous in its condemnation. A spot survey by the New York Times showed that many plain citizens were seriously concerned about the committee's conduct. Some wanted to scrap the Thomas committee outright; others wanted to do away with the whole system of congressional investigations...
Lynd termed the view that the middle class is the faith and hope of America as "just plain applesauce." Once this group was a powerful progressive force, but since the death of frontier democracy, the middle class has been crushed between the power of both "big business" and "big labor...
...gentleman named Francis Woodman has a pleasant routine three days of every week. He comes from his home in Jamaica Plain, and walks slowly from the Yard to Soldiers Field, admiring the changes that time has imprinted on the undergraduate and the view. For Mr. Woodman was a Senior here when Saturday football games were played on Jarvis Field and the best rooms were in Grays and Matthews. Many years have passed since 1888, and now he has come back after retirement to watch football practices, attend Sunday chapel, and at least partially relive the unworried college days...