Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some ways, he sounded a good bit like Candidate Harry Truman, yearning for the whistle stops again. But to the old back-platform folksiness and give-em-hell zest, he had added another quality: the regardless candor of a man who is soon to become plain Harry Truman, U.S. citizen...
...truce agreement been reached in Korea? Beneath the weird and interminable welter of words at Panmunjom, the reason is plain even to the newest soldier on the front...
Pupils of his system have ranged from Billy Rose (200 words a minute) to Cuba's General Batista (175-200 words). There were businessmen and bankers, soldiers and statesmen, and legions of just plain Kitty Foyles. Of all the Americans who were to learn shorthand, 90% learned it from Gregg.* By the time he died in 1948, his loops and squiggles had recorded most of the business of the century...
...York Daily News thinks it knows how to speak plain American, and can point to 2,000,000 daily readers to back up its opinion. The News is constantly reminded of its own vulgar virtues-sometimes from rather surprising quarters. The latest was a series of articles (just published as a book) in FORTUNE, by William H. Whyte Jr., called Is Anybody Listening?-an attack on the confused and confusing manner in which U.S. business generally expresses itself. Pointing to itself with pride as an example of how to do it, the News approvingly listed its own rules for getting...
...worst side of his manner. His story, set in Mexico some time before the revolution of 1910, tells how the peons used to be duped into almost lifelong servitude on the big estates and timber properties. Like a man telling an enthralling tale to children, Traven describes the plain peasant, Candido, going off to the mahogany forest to join the slave-labor gang. As a fee-greedy doctor has let his wife die, Candido has to take his two little sons along: also with him are his devoted sister and three suckling pigs which, whatever their symbolic significance...