Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were bellwethers Bethlehem and U.S. Steel. But they were getting that old price-raising feeling, too. Both companies raised pig-iron prices $3 a ton. Big Steel brushed off the raise as a bookkeeping device. It uses almost all its pig-iron output itself. But the raise was a plain sign of the way both companies were thinking. With the ice broken by smaller companies-and the pattern already set-both were expected to increase steel prices also, thus assuring a general rise in the industry...
Throughout the royal tour Philip's picture stood on Elizabeth's dressing table. She wrote him three times a week. By the time she got home again, Prince Philip of Greece had become plain Lieut. Mountbatten, a British subject. The U.N. and the U.S. had taken on Britain's Greek headaches. The last objection to the match seemed to have been removed. Philip proposed formally, asked King George's consent, and the King gave it heartily...
...first day at Pamplona, it looked as if the great annual festival would be an anticlimax. Pepín Martín Vasquez, who has built up a reputation as one of the best of the younger men, was very bad. El Andaluz, an old hand, was just plain dull. But the bulls were bad that day, and the crowd tended to make excuses...
This jolting dose of culture was such a hit with St. Matthew's plain parishioners that Parson Hussey decided to do it every year. Each St. Matthew's Day (Sept. 21) he commissions at least one new work, like Sutherland's Crucifixion. The congregation raises the funds...
...Fryer, had carried a Red banner in a May Day demonstration. Andrews asked Communist Fryer for an explanation. He got an apology, and a promise from Fryer that he would never wear his Red sympathies in public again. But Reporter Fryer refused to renounce his Communism. The issue was plain; and neither the editor nor his employee tried to duck it. Wrote Editor Andrews...