Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stassen and his cohorts have a more dynamic basis for their complete confidence in victory. The Man from Minnesota who believes that "if we are right, we will win," proposes to convince the plain U.S. voter, and through him the politician, that he deserves the presidency...
...Voice. All the forms of evasion and obstruction?from dilatory diatribes and procedural pettifoggery to the simple no and the plain walkout?were Andrei Gromyko's special assignments. As the Soviet Union's permanent representative on the Security Council, he was doing his job with maddening competence...
...made it plain last week that countries refusing to participate in the Paris conference on the Marshall approach will get no economic assistance from the U.S. Signs of a stiffer attitude toward Russia's satellites included...
...counties of Wharton and Matagorda on the Texas coastal plain, cotton growers were dismayed to find their cotton plants blighted by a mysterious disease. Bolls were deformed, leaves twisted. Altogether 10,000 acres were affected...
...world's airways, one fact was plain: the Air Age needed a lot of supercharging from state subsidies to maintain flying speed. Because of subsidies, free-enterprising American-flag lines, once way ahead, could now see a handful of foreign lines, state-supported in varying degrees, creeping up on their tails. On the choicest route-the North Atlantic-the American lines were still well in front. The Pacific Ocean was still an American lake. But over the land mass of Asia, the British, Dutch and French lines were pressing hard; Air France has just opened...