Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, the food shipments seemed to spring from more human, less political, motives. One, undoubtedly, was a little international racket which encouraged individual Greeks to send the parcels as gestures of gratitude for U.S. aid, thus avoiding Greek Government restrictions on food exports. The other source was. plain Greeks who (like plain people all over Europe) had always sent the old special delicacies to their emigrant families in the new world. For everyone knew that though America was great and incredibly well fed, it just couldn't produce the kind of salami that brought tears to your eyes...
...turf-covered plain near Delhi, a splendid assemblage gathered Jan. 1, 1877. The High Officers and Ruling Chiefs of India took their seats behind a gilt railing in an amphitheater of blue, white, gold and red, to hear Queen Victoria proclaimed first Empress of India. They rose to their feet as a flourish of trumpets announced the arrival, across 800 feet of red carpet, of His Excellency the Viceroy, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Second Baron Lytton. The proclamation was read, the Royal Standard was hoisted, and artillery fired a grand salute of 101 salvos. Mixed bands played God Save...
...keep out the marching feet of warlike neighbors, the kings surrounded it with a massive wall which ran crazily along the crest of the encircling hills. My guides were telling me a dreamy tale of how one king kept his pretty women in a palace over there and his plain women in a palace over on this side. Why he did this I never learned, for just then came a sound that I had learned too well -feet marching in military cadence to a martial song...
...gusty wind, sweeping up from the Banat plain across the Yugoslav frontier, seemed to heighten the nervous tension in the town. It snapped at the shawls and embroidered blouses of the peasants, sent newspapers and political handbills scurrying around the huge square in clouds of dust. Slowly, the crowd gathered around the oldfashioned, three-storied brownstone hotel at the corner of the square. From windows the loudspeakers monotonously blared out the announcement: "At 6 o'clock, a meeting of the Freedom Party...
...have not risen since then. The year's crop was good, and Argentina is sending wheat. Franco is not threatened by an immediate economic crisis. Two years ago, with Naziism's defeat, the regime was panicky. One year ago it just began to recover. Today it is plain cocky...