Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people's mind was, as grass-root William Allen White's Emporia Gazette stated in plain singletalk, the question whether they can "believe the reports and statements of our leaders ... in this war." The people did not shout for General Patton's scalp. There were editorial shouts and much dinner-table clamor-and humorists in the Army's monstrous Pentagon Building in Washington sang: "Pistol Packing Patton Laid that Private Down." But PM's honest editor John P. Lewis admitted that his mail was running almost 5-to-1 against the paper's high...
...more basic matters of truth and confidence, a wave of popular discomfort penetrated deep from the editorial columns. That "the Army has been caught in a barefaced misstaternent of fact" (as the Cleveland Plain Dealer put it), was bound to have repercussions far beyond the personal fate of the Problem General...
...some it was a joy; some rolled in new wealth, splashed happily among unaccustomed delights. For many more it was plain tragedy; starvation was an ever-present possibility. The bank clerk, fingering his last western suit and wondering how many thousands of Chinese dollars he could get for it, was little better off than the university professor wondering whether he should abandon his career, with its paltry fixed salary, for a bank clerk's job where at least there was some attempt to hoist wages as the cost of living soared. In this atmosphere, U.S. Army men in China...
...bruited World Bank.*Billed as a "tentative proposal . . . [with] neither official status nor the approval of any department of the Government," the blueprint for a United Nations Bank for Reconstruction and Development was sired by the Treasury's economist, Harry D. White. But Henry the Morgue made it plain that he had adopted the child...
China now had a linguistic instrument which could help rebuild the nation. But the literate coolie veterans of the war had next to nothing to read. So Jimmy set out to create a plain people's literature in Pai-hua. The peasants were generally skeptical, but eventually Jimmy's revolution spread to thousands of centers. In addition to reading and writing, many of these centers teach public health, improved economic ways, civics. They are an integral part of the new national educational system. Jimmy became an adviser to Chiang Kaishek, many a night of whose sleep he ruined...