Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry Truman fired him as head of the Justice Department's tax division, big, molasses-voiced Theron Lamar Caudle has spent a lot of time down home in Wadesboro, N.C. reflecting steadily on the ingratitude of princes. Last week, before the Chelf subcommittee in Washington, he made it plain that he felt himself more to be pitied than censured, that his was the dilemma of the small-town boy who falls in with flint-eyed, big-city strangers and finds himself the fall guy when the cops knock down the door...
...author explains that Sam Hamilton is Irish, but even poetic Irishmen must sometimes break down into plain, unmetered English. The fact is that even not being Irish does not save some of the other characters from this same precisely-accented. false speech. Lee, the Chinese servant, would be an appealing person if he spoke just plain excellent English, instead of Mr. Steinbeck's pretty sentences...
...gubernatorial candidate Christian Herter he described as a "wise, conservative gentleman and scholar. Dever is a plain front man for a bunch of thugs and robbers...
Would-be avente-garde novelists, hard-bitten newspapermen, best-selling authors presidents of these Unites States, and just plain students are advised that the CRIMSON competitions, ideal training for these occupations, will begin Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at Number 14 Plympton...
Operation Holdfast climaxed a month of the most ambitious maneuvers that NATO's small, green but growing forces have so far staged. On the north German plain, east of the Rhine, 150,000 British, Dutch, Belgian and Canadian troops were holding off a theoretical mass attack from the east. Britain had contributed three armored divisions, equipped with the 52-ton, Korea-tested Centurion tank. Belgium had one division of obsolescent U.S. Shermans...