Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon last week, the prison trucks pulled up at State Highway Camp 18, a dreary collection of wooden buildings in the piney woods and palmetto lowlands of Georgia's coastal plain. They were bringing back the road gang from its grass-cutting job along Jesup Highway. The Negro convicts were hustled out and herded in front of one of the barracks. There was a confusion of orders and shouting. Then, as quick as a shimmer of summer lightning, something happened...
...billion the U.S. has pumped out since the war, much was just plain wasted. The deal that looked best when it was made was the $3.75 billion loan to Britain. It did not help Britain much toward recovery, but it did supply food to stave off a British collapse (see FOREIGN NEWS). Before the U.S. decides that the British loan was a waste, somebody will have to calculate how many billions the U.S. would have had to spend if Britain had collapsed. The figure would be much higher than $3.75 billion...
Nevertheless the U.S. Congress and the U.S. people had nearly always come, however reluctantly, to the point where they backed broad, essential foreign policy when both the need and the workability of a given program was clear. The need for U.S. action to stop Russia was plain enough; this summer's work at Paris would give the Congress and the people an idea of whether it was workable. To whatever Paris produced, the U.S. would apply certain tests. Among them...
...Mountbatten, was back to shirtsleeves. Since arriving in the U.S. last October, her blonde ladyship has lent her name to a line of Indian textiles, to a dancing school, to a chewing-gum ad ("[Gum] is the height of good taste"). Now, she announced, she had a job, as plain Miss Mountbatten, in the Manhattan publicity offices of Columbia Pictures Corp., and liked the U.S. so much that she had decided to stay...
...many a U.S. town, children vomited and complained of sore throats and headaches. To some harried parents, the explanation was as plain as the wads in their youngsters' jaws: the poisonous villain must be bubble...