Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plain Talk. In Tampa, a student found a straight question on a school form ("Father's Occupation?"), gave it a straight answer...
...after twelve months, the plan people still liked Harry Truman as a plain man. But he was not a President who inspired their high confidence and enthusiastic admiration, any more than their deep hatred...
...first few months in the White House Harry Truman had enjoyed a personal popularity-it was almost indistinguishable from sympathy-that few Presidents had ever achieved. At one time this popular sympathy had been greater (according to Gallup polls) than F.D.R.'s at its highest. The plain people had cottoned to the plain Missourian who seemed so eager to admit his inadequacy, but so humbly trustful of democracy that he was willing to take on burdens and make quick decisions...
...great canal will carry most of the Jordan-bound water to thirsty lands in the famous Plain of Esdraelon, and along the Mediterranean coast. The rest will irrigate the narrow, hot Jordan valley. But the Jordan itself will not go wholly dry, as it did when Joshua commanded the Israelites in the attack on unfortunate Jericho...
Nobody worried much. If people sickened, Grandmother doctored them, and they either died or got well. Nobody bathed and nobody cared. People grunted "Yes," "No," "Food," "Ghost," "Blood," sometimes sighed "Ohhhahhh" or just plain "Ohhhh...