Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter how often he puts his foot in his mouth, President Truman has a saving humility and lack of pretense. Last week he demonstrated those plain virtues again. As he scraped for dollars and food to aid Europe, he recalled another time when he was hard-pressed: his 1919 venture as partner in a Kansas City haberdashery. He told the Commerce Department's advisory committee on small business: "I know some of the troubles of small business. I was in one myself. ... It took me 20 years to get out from under that experience, and I would hate...
...Food in the school lunchroom was "just plain lousy...
Then the Prosecutor could turn to India: "Everywhere the armed and the many devoured the helpless and the few. In Calcutta, in Lahore, in Amritsar, in Old Delhi and New Delhi and throughout the magnificent plain of the dismembered Punjab, in homes and shops and factories and farms and villages and in the religious sanctuaries of all faiths, amid the clotting of the terrified in depots and on guarded trains and on lonely station platforms and in the vast shelterless encampments of refugees and their hypnotized columns across the land, the devastation raged alike among Hindus and Moslems and Sikhs...
...Russian achievements have been large," declared Harris yesterday, "but the plain fact is that they haven't been quite as large as they say they've been." The international trade expert does not contend that the Soviet Government manipulates its statistics...
...labor's unity in the coming countrywide elections. On the surface the unions may appear a long way apart. CIO's president calls for a meeting "to formulate an immediate joint program" and the AFL hierarchy declines in a huff. But under the surface of intra-labor jockeying the plain fact persists that both CIO and AFL have common political aims in the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and the defeat of its Congressional supporters...