Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill passed by a vote of 287 to 107. But the close Republican vote-127 to 93-made it plain that congressional support of every phase of the Administration's foreign policy was by no means on a bipartisan basis...
Stripes or plain trousers...
Only objects "in plain sight," three dissents thought, could logically be seized. This did not satisfy Justice Jackson. He would rigidly limit the search to the body of the person arrested. Said Jackson: "It would seem a little capricious to say that a gun on top of a newspaper could be taken but a newspaper on top of a gun insulated it from seizure...
...made it plain that Jed had always rubbed him the wrong way. As a Congressman Jed Johnson, he said, was always asking for petty favors. To make sure they were granted he frequently threatened to swing an economy ax on Ickes' Interior Department. Ickes had finally decided that there was only one way out-to boot Jed upstairs as hard as he could. That was why he had got Franklin Roosevelt to offer Jed the judgeship...
Though many an American hoped that the loan would help France's Government in its struggle with the Communists, the French Government itself was playing down that line to avoid cries of "dollar diplomacy." Plain Frenchmen regard the Bank's credit as a U.S. loan. Said a middle-class Paris housewife, when asked how she felt about American aid to France: "The Communists say we are getting closer to the Americans because that persuades the Americans to help us. But what is so disgraceful about that? Isn't that what you do in business every...