Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against the windows of Manhattan's Criminal Courts Building the bulletlike drops of the first spring rains beat and splashed with homicidal violence. The crowd of cops, dicks, court attendants, learned counsel, plain loafers and plain prurient goons who infest such scenes beat against the court's doors. Behind the doors was beginning one of the most sensational murder trials in Manhattan's legal history. Justice, as men understand it, was being meted out to Wayne Lonergan, handsome, six-foot, crop-headed Royal Canadian Air Force aircraftman charged with murdering his socialite wife last October...
...opinion Russia would favor Rumania's regaining bleak potato lands of northern Transylvania. To hardy, Russia-hating Magyars, this preference for spineless, graft-ridden Rumanians was the last straw. As the Nazis clamped down on Hungary, hitherto their most obliging satellite, the landowning lords of the Hungarian plain toyed with a desperate plan: to strike into Rumania before the Russians could cross Bessarabia...
Only two of the quints are identical; the rest are all types, ranging from blond to dark. Papa Diligenti calls them a "full house"-three queens, two jacks. They are healthy, normal children; they were bottle-raised in their own home, never saw a doctor. Their diet is sensible, plain, with plenty of fruit juices...
...black Ukrainian steppe the Red Army fought one of its greatest battles, won one of World War II's greatest victories. At week's end Red units swarmed across the Dniester, spilled onto the bleak, muddy Bessarabian plain of pre-1940 Rumania. It was the 1,002nd day of Russia...
...composition that brought cheers from Carnegie Hall's audience was Bruckner's Te Deum. Like all of his major works it is large, vigorous, austerely religious-a vast tonal shrine. Its melodies are plain-spoken rather than pretty; it has little sensuous appeal. But when Conductor Bruno Walter, the New York Philharmonic and the 176-voice Westminster Choir rose to its climaxes, admirers felt they were hearing music equaled in cumulative power only by the most massive scores in symphonic music...