Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...homespun and plain as an old shoe; his shrewd and educated political sense guards him against assuming any more sophisticated manner. On his campaign train he joined newsmen at poker almost every night, dressed in pajamas and an old flowered dressing gown, the kind that can be bought on any Main Street. When the waiter brought in a deep-dish pie. Harry Truman exclaimed: "My, the crust is as good as Mummy used to make." He drinks his bourbon with ginger...
...Trumans were plain people of Scotch, Irish and Dutch stock. (Harry said: "We're a little of everything. If you shook the family tree anything might fall...
...supply was chaotic, soldiers were exhausted from long marches, liaison was fantastically bad, command corrupt and inept. At the Masurian Lakes one Russian commander deployed his corps by plain-language radio orders, stupidly tipped off the Germans...
Prime Minister Churchill's long war against "officialese" and for the use of plain English got official support last week: The British War Office issued a notice to its staff...
Last week a New York State Department of Education official paid a professional call on Vice Dean Manus. As a consulting specialist, he brought along one of Mayor Fiorello ("Butch") LaGuardia's plain-clothes men. "Dr." Manus, whose scientific studies had not turned him against religion (his 4-D draft status is for ministers and divinity students), was held on $5,000 bail. The charges: 1) presiding over an unchartered college (whose West Coast mother institutions were non existent); 2) calling himself a medical doctor; 3) calling his high-gear sheepskin tannery a school of medicine...