Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must all get in and push. That doesn't require anything in the world but plain understanding among ourselves . . . cooperation of management and labor and the farmers and every storekeeper, and every man who has an interest in the Government of the United States...
...life. They made little money. But few U.S. couples were happier. They had 52 acres ot land near Memphis, a white cottage, a little herd of dairy cattle. They had four children-a baby girl and three little boys. Both had been raised on the land, both were from plain, churchgoing Methodist families and neither had ever expected life to be different...
...Plain Talk. This chitchatty approach to reality had some appalling aspects. It was time somebody got down to cases. President Harry S. Truman finally did. In a careful message to Congress...
...scraped Danubian plain blazed like brass: Hungary, one of the bounteous nations of Europe, would this year require six million quintals of wheat. Allied authorities started a vast woodcutting campaign in the Vienna woods, to supplement the capital's inadequate coal stocks...
...leader of the rising Liberal Party, talked soberly of strengthening the Diet and weakening the Army and Navy. The forms and manners of party rule were not new to the Japs, whose Diet (Parliament) is 55 years old. But the feel and substance of freedom were entirely new. The plain people, worried about food and work and shelter, had little time for minshu shugi (democracy) as the Americans understood...