Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...native costume (i.e., working clothes), could hit Generous John Foster for a small loan? If Saud can put his hand out, how about the plight of the small businessman? What with new taxes on trucks, new taxes on having over four employees, old taxes on telephones, travel, entertainment-just plain taxes ad nauseam. LOUISE BUCK ROBSHAM West Yarmouth, Mass...
...blew out shortly after he stepped ashore. It was nothing compared with the storm blowing up from pulpit, editorial page, civic organizations and even state legislatures over a visit tentatively scheduled for April by Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. By last week it was plain that, foreign policy or no, Tito was persona non grata to a vociferous segment of the American public...
...business suit, or later sitting on Pamina's bed in a modern bedroom while singing the famed aria In Diesen Heil'gen Hallen with its Masonic message of brotherly love. In the background loomed towers of concentration camps, cages filled with ballet dancers, and an assortment of plain kitchen chairs...
...advantage as a writer, for he saw men dressed for their roles in the sharp hierarchy of a ship's company. Writing was agony to him, and he was paid only £20 for his first book. He was immobilized by gout, but the fancy cooking of his wife, plain Jessie George, says Author Jean-Aubry in a very French aside, made things bearable. Isolated in his cottage in Kent, where he could sniff the sea, Conrad sometimes despaired of his writing (he thought of becoming a pearl fisherman or a Suez Canal pilot), but in the end his work...
...plain fact is, that of these three areas for independent study, only the thesis succeeds as such. Both tutorial and course reduction fall short of real independent study--although they certainly may succeed in other ways--because they are inevitably bucking three facts about education at Harvard. Two of these concern Harvard, and one concerns education...