Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...popped Alabama's Senator Black to make the Senate's intentions perfectly plain to the leather-lunged Kingfish: "I believe it is the will of the Senate to proceed now and let the Senator from Louisiana continue his speech and complete it, even though it takes until Sunday...
...quake swept up the Plain of No Riches, along the farther side of the Suliman mountain wall. When it stopped, Quetta, Kalat, Mastung, Shikapur and dozens of villages were a plain of rubble. Alert Sir Alexander yelled to his household to stand in the doorways. The house tumbled but the doorways stood. Then Sir Alexander went to work...
...world has rarely seen a more thorough job. Survivors claimed that just before 3 a. m. a red light filled the sky and the jackals on the plain fell silent. The earth shook, settled back, shook again longer and more violently, and then once more. "For half a minute the earth seemed to go mad," said a British survivor. "Boughs of trees, normally many feet from the ground, swept the earth. Birds fell from their nests. The moon danced crazily in the sky. The roar I can liken only to the sound of 20 express trains...
...Lord"), "Jonadabs" ("workers in the Lord's vineyard"), "pioneers" (those who have dropped all other work except that of Jehovah), and "publishers" (those who do Jehovah's work along with their own). Last Sunday, remnants, Jonadabs, pioneers and publishers, to say nothing of the thousands of plain Bible Students, listened bug-eyed in Washington Auditorium to a speech by Judge Rutherford broadcast and rebroadcast to the ends of the earth by radio, wire and wireless at a cost claimed to be $200,000. They applauded lustily when Judge Rutherford referred to the Roman Catholic Church as a "foreign...
...horde of plain Eastside housewives, chanting "down with high meat prices!" invaded the distributing plants of Wilson & Co. and United Dressed Beef Co. In The Bronx 2,000 women volunteering as pickets succeeded in closing down more than 1,000 meat shops. In Brooklyn a poultry dealer named William Sheeger carried a chicken home for supper. Pickets, mistaking him for a customer who would not join the boycott, hurled a rock through his window, pummeled him. Confined at first to kosher shops, the strike spread to some nonkosher operators. Strike leaders claimed that more than 4,000 shops had been...