Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wind of Dave's shenanigans, advised him more than once that it was time to straighten out his affairs. At length he fired off a "Dear Dave" letter: "There has been talk of your receiving a kickback [from a building loan in Honolulu with Teamster funds], the plain implication being that this was in accordance with a pattern. I am sure that your fiduciary duty has never been sufficiently impressed upon your mind. Accept my resignation...
...plied with questions about the speed of U.S. cars and the wonders of television). Wyszynski sees everyone who wants to see him, except reporters. He keeps in touch with the outside world mostly by means of a single radio and through a steady stream of clergy, nuns, officials and plain citizens in his waiting rooms. There has been no evidence of any direct contact with Gomulka; Education Minister Wladyslaw Bienkowski is usually mentioned as the go-between. Two members of the Polish hierarchy closest to him-they accompanied him to Rome-are Bishop Zygmut Choromanski, Secretary of the Episcopate...
...Churchill's Chief of the Imperial General Staff (from 1941 to 1946), Brooke worked more closely with the Prime Minister than anyone else, and much of the book is designed to make it plain that, without Alan Brooke, Winnie would certainly have gone off the rails with catastrophic frequency. Most of Bryant's story will be old hat to those who have read Churchill's history. Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe and Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins. What gives it immediacy and historical stature is the day-by-day evidence of the reticent professional...
Today is the final day for filling out polls for the CRIMSON Confidential Guide for Freshman Courses. If students cannot find any polls, they may write their comments and suggestions on a piece of plain paper...
Defending the administration's $71,800,000,000 budget in a direct appeal to the people, the President said in a speech prepared for coast-to-coast television and radio broadcasts: "The plain truth is that the price of peace is high...