Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd gathered around a dusty truck. A sunburned farmer squinted appraisingly at a little man standing and shouting on the truck's tailpiece. "He wouldn't be no account on a thrashin' gang," the farmer said. "But I reckon he's smart. And he talks plain...
...Payson wild's contribution to classroom harmony, ("I think the exchange of opinion between men and women fruitful") was endorsed without reservation as 65% of the House decided that the exchange was fruitful, A smaller group felt that it was "not fruitful," and a third, introvert contingent said just plain "sour grapes...
Collecting a crowd of about 50 for its first meeting in the Adams House Upper Common Room last night, one supporter calling himself "a Liberal with no place to go," and another "just plain curious," the New Fabian Society heard two of its three faculty sponsors and outlined its three point program for immediate action...
Ashamed of its unrealism and delays, frightened by the spread of famine, the Truman Administration at last met fact with action. When action came, it was drastic. This week the U.S. miller, baker and plain citizen finally knew that famine abroad would mean sacrifices at home. But the U.S. farmer again got what he wanted out of world shortages: a higher price...
Intellectual Theologian Niebuhr (pronounced Neeber) is no man for the masses: he often has Union Theological Seminary's best students gasping In the high altitudes of his apologetics. On the other hand, he is no mere dialectician of theology: his plain & fancy thinking is as closely welded to the problems of this world's politics as Walter Lippmann's. Last week he once again showed his hand, calluses and all, in his eleventh book, Discerning the Signs of the Times (Scribner...