Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colons and the troops see the fellagha signaling at night, with flashlights from the tops of hills. "The flick of a burnoose, the beating of a donkey may mean something-who knows?" Desparnets says. "All a fellagh has to do is drop his gun, and zut, he becomes a plain Arab named Mohammed. It's not hard for them." The fellagha never attack unless certain of victory. In combat with anything like equal numbers, they leave four men behind as a suicide force to protect their fleeing leader...
...Muzart, a plain woman worn by hard work, was almost in tears. "There's so little we can take along," she said...
They worked so effectively that the 2,000 tons of Communist infantry weapons that Arbenz imported last month were worthless-and he had no fighter planes of his own. As fear and tension grew in Guatemala, it became plain that the Communist...
...Sunday morning of this week there were plain signs of defection in the army and the cabinet. Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello called in U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy, sought to see what could be saved, offered to resign. Peurifoy's diplomatic answer was that he would certainly like to see the bloodshed end. He was barely back at his embassy when the phone rang again. It was Colonel Carlos Enrique Diaz, chief of the armed forces...
have been sold annually, many of them to people who had seldom bought a hardcover book. Quickie publishers went into the business with the plain intention of out-trashing the trashiest. As business boomed, prices for reprint rights were bid to extravagant heights: $20,000 for a novel became a commonplace. Some hardcover publishers accepted manuscripts that they would ordinarily have rejected, if they could be sure of a profitable resale to a paperback firm...