Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flank Speed. Marine Commandant Randolph McCall Pate damned the presidential torpedoes, sailed flank speed ahead. Fearful that the traditional role of the Marines as a Johnny-on-the-spot expeditionary force might be curtailed-or just plain obliterated-four-star General Pate declared: "I don't see anything wrong with the way we're functioning...
...recent years, betting against the devil's-red-and-blue of Calumet Farm has proved a losing business. With Plain Ben Jones and his son Jimmy to handle her horses, Calumet Owner Mrs. Gene Markey can practically claim squatter's rights on the special Derby winner's circle at Churchill Downs...
...Tarn was the seventh Calumet colt to come home first in the "Run for the Roses,'' the third since Mrs. Markey inherited the farm from her first husband, the late baking-powder heir. Warren Wright. And Plain Ben Jones has even one more Derby winner than that: he trained the great Lawrin for Kansas City Clothing Merchant Herbert Woolf back...
...just trying to tell a story. I studied economics and sociology, but I don't put them into my stories." Caldwell makes no claims to sophistication, except if by sophistication, you mean being more aware of the situation around you, having an expanded knowledge of people. We use a plain table service...
...airlines, the demands of the pilots seem a plain case of featherbedding: the lines say they need no third pilot. But the demands have brought on a war between two unions, the Air Line Pilots Assn. (A.L.P.A.), which negotiates for the nation's 15,000 airline pilots, and the Flight Engineers' International Assn.. which speaks for 3,500 U.S. mechanic-engineers now working on big DC-7s and Super Constellations. In the pilots' attempt to oust the engineers, says Western Air Lines President Terrell C. Drinkwater. "we were selected as a guinea pig for the entire...