Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever their politics, few Americans would dispute that, as an ambassador of good will, the plain man from Missouri has had few equals. Last week, unassuming Harry Truman was at his best in Brazil...
Later, after blackened bodies had been taken in gunny sacks to an improvised morgue, numbed relatives listened to undertakers' assistants: "Does a heart-shaped locket mean anything to anyone? Does a very plain wedding ring worn on the right hand mean anything? Here is a red linen handkerchief with the words 'Bonnie Scotland' on it, and a ruby ring." By week's end the dead were counted at 31, including the special's engine crew...
...restrain him. ... He makes poetry yield dividends. He gives marks for it. He asks his pupils to paraphrase it. ... Ask anyone to paraphrase a poem and . . . you suggest that a poem is a sort of fancy dress for a statement that can be made equally well in plain prose...
...Unscrupulousness. With Screwtape's success, Lewis became a celebrity. A man who could talk theology without pulling a long face or being dull was just what a lot of people in war-beleaguered Britain wanted. The BBC put Lewis on the air and for three years his short, plain-spoken broadcasts on what Christians believe made him, for his listeners, almost as synonymous with religion as the Archbishop of Canterbury. The R.A.F. even chose him as a kind of Christian-at-large to visit air bases and discuss theology...
...Flynn were genuinely worried over the choice-whereas the majority of their fellow citizens were doubtless unaware that the vacancy even existed. Flynn's book, a record of such attention to detail, demonstrates again that eternal vigilance is the price of bossism. Ed Flynn "took care" of plain people in The Bronx so well that he became one of Roosevelt's closest political advisers and hobnobbed with history on missions to Moscow, Yalta and the Vatican...