Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of Smith's votes probably came from noncommunist union members and from plain citizens who believed that he would be a smart, efficient official. Smith, no stranger to City Hall, where he served as alderman in 1937, was expected to play down revolution, play up municipal reform...
Friday's dawn on the rolling plain of south Poland was like many of the month before-a grey blending of snowy night with snowy day. On their side of the line west of the Vistula, the Germans huddled in their trenches and guessed that this Friday would be just another day of wary waiting. No planes would fly. The earth was still soft and sticky...
...analyze and explain to the public the proposals worked out after the war for achieving world peace and making our economic machine function." "Newspapermen," he believes, "need four important assets: a good working knowledge of the profession, an inquisitive mind, a cynical skepticism, and an ability to write plain English...
...socked at Mayor Ed Kelly, Governor Dwight Green, lawyers and bankers and traction interests, politicians, the plain citizenry ("suckers . . ."). General theme: Chicago is a shoddy place to live, because of cupidity, stupidity, boondoggling and apathy. All this was not so much an expose as a loud public belch, well illustrated. In stories signed by "William Tell," the public was invited to join in with its own complaints. Said the Herald-American: "Tell William . . . and let William Tell...
...guess. The Department of Commerce predicted that war production this year, based on present schedules, will drop below that of 1944. But this will happen only if present schedules remain unchanged. The probabilities are that many of them will be changed-upwards. As the year closed the lesson was plain for all the U.S. to read: in war there is never enough...