Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corps rests on the corps commander. This is an accepted axiom and was not changed by the action on Old Baldy. In exercising this responsibility of command it is often necessary for the corps and division commanders to discuss the action and the situation in very simple and plain terms. Evidently your source erroneously interpreted such a discussion occurring in a forward observation post to be a public rebuke...
Britons did not fool themselves about their new budget. When it came down to plain shillings and pence, the tax cuts were small; no Briton was going to need larger pockets. But the tax cuts were a well-timed tonic for the British spirit. A London lady read about them, calculated that they would save her ?70 this year, and promptly asked a painter to paint the front of her house...
Many of the city's oldest schools, they found, are still in use: Hawes Hall, South Boston, built in 1823; Lyceum Hall, Dorchester, 1839; Hobart School, Brighton, 1844; Alcott School, South End, 1847; Old Agassiz School, Jamaica Plain, 1834; and the Dwight and Franklin Schools, both South End, and Prescott School, Charlestown, all constructed...
...They seem to need it badly. A good many Western observers no longer accept as fact what once seemed so plain: the direct transference of authority from Stalin to Malenkov. That original assumption leaves too many later developments unexplained: e.g., the abandonment by Malenkov of the key job of Secretary of the Communist Party, and the conspicuous absence of any personal buildup of Malenkov...
Actors, generals, presidents and princes (including the British brothers who became Edward VIII and George VI) enjoyed the hospitality of plain Mrs. Bates, who was known as tia (aunt) up and down the west coast. Film Star Clark Gable once journeyed 1,000 miles out of his way just to stay at Quinta Bates. Guests liked to sit in Tia Bates's museum-like house and, over Scotch-and-sodas or pisco sours, listen to her talk. Her memory was long and her stories often spicy. Guests also found the quinta hard to leave (two of them stayed...