Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When he's in plain clothes I never hear what he's doing. Usually, he talks to me at the movies, and we aren't interrupted by the children. But we never have time for movies any more. And, then, we sleep in twin beds so he won't wake me up when he comes...
...couple of weeks ago Roger told me that a man he knew had been murdered by three men in his car in Astoria. He said he'd been picked to work on the case in plain clothes, and that he only had ten days to do the job, but that it was his big chance. Later on, he said he thought there was some connection between this murder and that horrible one in Central Park...
...bawled for violence: "I call on every red-blooded white man to use any means to keep the niggers away from the polls. If you don't understand what that means you are just plain dumb...
When Stoke heard about it, anger swept through the city of fire and earth. The people liked this squarejawed, plain-speaking American. If he wanted to be one of them, why, no bloke in any bloomin' office up in London had a right to interfere. Three hundred petitions ("We, the undersigned constituents of the Potteries towns . . . record our protest . . .") circulated throughout the Five Towns, bore 10,000 signatures by last week...
Undergraduates who deem themselves budding Heywood Brouns, Margaret Bourke-Whites, or just plain hack writers will have their first opportunity of the summer term to achieve their goals Friday night, when the Crimson opens competitions for its news, editorial, business, and photographic boards...