Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bench sat Judge James Robert Martin Jr. A strapping onetime Washington & Lee football player, Judge Martin, at 37, is known all over South Carolina as a firm, fair man. He made it plain from the beginning that he would stand for no nonsense...
Economics, as amoral as science and as flexible as art, offers complicated reasons why it should be done. But the plain people of Europe, faced with an uncertain summer and the certainty of terrible winter, will hardly understand such nonsense. In Germany, gripped by a grave food crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS), potatoes meant life. Britain was still wearily debating whether or not the noted nutritionist, Dr. Franklin Bicknell, had been right when he said that Britons were slowly starving. In France, the daily bread ration had been cut from 10.5 ounces to 8.3 ounces, may be cut again, and Premier...
...muster the two-thirds majority to do it. Moreover, the opposition U.D.N. (National Democratic Union), which has backed Dutra on many an issue, refuses to go along on this one. U.D.N. Chief Jose Americo de Almeida had gone straight to President Dutra at squat Catete Palace and made that plain...
...Hecht screenplay is Adolph Menjou playing a Hollywood producer whose movies nosedive until he meets a wholesome miss (Andrea Leeds) with the proper pedestrian slant concerning what the public wants. She becomes his private consultant--"Miss Humanity"--on the plain citizen's tastes in story twists. Instructions explicitly forbid her mingling in film colony circles where she might "go Hollywood;" one night she dares venture into a hamburger wagon where Kenny Baker sings while he flips ("love walked right in . . . and drove the shadows away") in a romantic golden voice custom-built for Mr. Plain Citizen. Sugar daddy Menjou gets...
Then Paul returns to the front. The rest of the book is the plain, grim tragedy of men hopelessly trapped-thanks largely to the fact that the U.S. Army didn't bother to parachute them their long-promised heavy machine guns. TIME-LIFE Correspondent Wertenbaker's handling of these and other military passages indicates that experience as a journalist is not always fatal to creative writing...