Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, in the Senate investigation of Washington five-percenters (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.) it became plain that John had been playing possum the whole time. While posing as a harmless and furtive hero-worshiper, he had been engaged in all kinds of rakish and profitable enterprise, often with the enthusiastic assistance of the Government itself...
...Gulval firm, is now brewing mead in steam-heated vats at the rate of 300,000 bottles a year. The firm is already shipping some mead to Bermuda; Mexico has given the largest single order so far (5,000). U.S. citizens will have their chance at mead; plain, it tastes like a Rhine wine but has more sting. Special varieties are sack mead, which tastes like Tokay; cyser, in which cider instead of water is mixed with honey to make a wine that tastes like sherry; and pyment, or clarre, which is like claret...
This final cascade of testimony made it more difficult than ever to imagine just what Harry Vaughan would have to say when he himself testified. But Washington politicos and thousands of plain citizens could hardly wait to find...
...British economic crisis, which had been building up ominously for months, was no longer a subject in the sedate preserve of economists and statesmen. Britain was in a worse position than at any time since war's end, and by last week every plain newspaper reader in Britain and the U.S. knew it, and knew more details than he had ever known before. Britain's dollar reserves had dropped almost to $1.2 billion, dangerously below the safe minimum of $2 billion. In short, Britain was teetering on the verge of bankruptcy; since she acts as banker...
...Editor Leech-let alone been interviewed by him-until he attacked their policies and programs in print. In Pittsburgh last week, Leech defended his legwork. Said he: "I kept away from top politicians in both parties...[They] only give you the official party line...I tried hardest to see plain people, to drop into pubs and strike up conversations, to sit on benches in Hyde Park...I don't think there is any serious charge in my whole series that hasn't been printed in British newspapers and magazines...Nobody was more surprised than I when the British...