Word: plainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pulp magazines, the moral was even plainer: no matter how low their standards for fiction, the comics could find lower ones...
There was some plainer speaking. Earlier in the week, Cripps had told the House of Commons that Britain would cut her imports from the dollar area by 25% to help stop the drain on her dollar supply. Now, Cripps wanted the Commonwealth to cut its own dollar area imports...
Fortnight ago, ruddy, moon-faced Professor Barrois came out, in the first of two articles for the biweekly Presbyterian Life, with some plainer talk. In the first installment, called "Where We Stand Together," he is as mild and tactful as ever. He concedes that "we Protestants are not at war with Rome. We do not believe, for instance, that Catholics are 'idolaters,' or that the Mass is 'for sale.' And Catholics do not regard us necessarily as religious anarchists who do not bother about the Ten Commandments . . . Catholics and Protestants both believe," he says...
...might yet turn out that his head-on tactics would bring the warring services together where James Forrestal's patient indecision had failed. But an end to service rivalries could never be reached by decree alone. With the Navy in open revolt last week, it was plainer than ever that real unification was also a state of mind: the services had to be convinced, not just told. By that definition, Louis Johnson's job had just begun...
...Father Feeney's name, Archbishop Gushing said, "obliges me to reveal the unhappy fact that Father Feeney has been defying the orders of his legitimate superiors for more than seven months and since Jan. 1 of this year has not possessed the faculties of this archdiocese." In plainer words, Father Feeney had been denied the right to preach or hear confessions. Last week Archbishop Gushing further decreed that Father Feeney could perform no priestly functions, e.g., saying Mass, teaching religion. He also forbade any Roman Catholic to visit or assist in the activities of Feeney's G.H.Q...