Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hemisphere), Morinigo's Foreign Minister, Dr. Federico Chaves, fresh from dining with Perón, .said that the elections, which Morinigo had been promising for six years, would be held immediately. He could and did predict the winner: the Colorado Party, headed by Morinigo. In this forecast, plain Paraguayans could find one consolation: if the rebels had won the war, it would only have meant swapping one dictatorship for another...
...feel. Satchmo had warmed up, as usual, on a few bars from Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, then for an hour they had lazed through old favorites like Basin Street Blues, Fidgety Feet and Sugar. Finally, Louis put down his horn and hit a few high Fs in the plain-talk department...
...London, the King-Emperor became plain George VI, King of Pakistan and of India (just as he is King of Canada and other dominions beyond the seas). Workmen took down the bronze plate in Whitehall, reading "India Office," replaced it with a painted wooden sign reading "Commonwealth Relations Office...
...those who are unquestioningly convinced of Roosevelt's greatness. The claim that the picture is completely nonpolitical is absurd. It is not only intensely political, but biased and sentimental; e.g., there is no recognition of such failures in international diplomacy as the Yalta conference. The comments of the plain people who remember and tell the Roosevelt story are mawkish examples of common-mannishness. The only dissenting voice is from a malevolent caricature of the club-chair Roosevelt-hater...
...years this cozy little city has been notorious for the ruthless rule of the Cracker Party, an ignorant, illiterate conglomeration of mill hands, job holders, liquor dealers, and small businessmen. Boss Hague never ran a tighter system. Convicts and city materials went into private jobs; plain citizens were jugged for protesting. When Fleming, disgusted with the local scene, opened up on the Crackers, even his friends told him he was crazy to stick his neck out. He wrote, he spoke, he agitated, he became a zealot. In 1943 he published Colonel Effingham's Raid, a Book-of-the-Month...