Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just as plain as this success is Wright's eagerness to return to creative research. "I've been involved in administrative work since 1942," he notes. "Now I want to get back to the business of writing books." Wright will have this opportunity next year as the recipient of a grant to study at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, California...
...city fathers of Paris once ordered a roundup of vagrants. The police herded together a motley crowd of itinerant peddlers, rag and iron merchants, sidewalk salesmen. Loaded down with their bundles, dragging handcarts behind them, they straggled past Montmartre, cut through the Porte de Clignancourt and onto the plain of Saint-Ouen, where the army occasionally held maneuvers. Here the evicted peddlers settled down, offered their trinkets for sale to passersby. When the army seemed not to object, they put up awnings over their merchandise, built flimsy wooden booths. They sold everything from ormolu clocks to cracked washbasins...
Golden Eggs. But the suburbs of Paris have slowly closed in on the Flea Market. Bulldozers appeared on the old Saint-Ouen parade ground. Four big housing developments rose 14 stories above the plain. Schools, children's playgrounds, sport fields, tree-lined avenues, a hospital annex are planned-and the Flea Market...
...must remember that the majority of mankind belong to the colored races . . . If America continues to lose friends as others become convinced that we do not mean what we say about justice and equality . . . these judgments are the plain cost we pay in God's universe for not practicing what we preach...
With the dreams out of the way, Ronnie Clark can get on with his rescue mission. Question, not answered till the final pages: Will he arrive in time? As always, Shute writes in plain, unadorned prose, packs his book with pluck and poignancy, and handles his flashbacks as easily as he would a basic trainer...