Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spoke of the Senate's bumbling, reluctant treatment of the manpower problem, of its already plain intention to pass a toothless measure instead of the House-approved May-Bailey bill for limited national service...
They are adequately fed on plain food. They do not care for corn ("Corn is for pigs") and turn up their noses at pumpkin...
Offered a chance at a commission, he turned it down. "I'm a plain soldier-I want to stay...
...plain truth was, it had been a good conference. The compromise way had paid off. There had been compromises on almost every major question between a powerful but reasonable U.S. and weak but sensitive Latins. Together they had agreed where they could, pushed aside for the future difficulties that defied agreement...
...Washington. Then France demanded changes in Dumbarton Oaks and, to her surprise, it was Stalin rather than Roosevelt or Churchill who firmly refused to make revisions before San Francisco-whither, as a result, France will now go as a guest, not as a sponsor. Just to make matters pikestaff-plain. Soviet Ambassador Alexander E. Bogomolov elucidated Russian realism v. French realism for Diplomat Maurice Dejean of the Quai d'Orsay: "France should not try to sing above her range...