Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words fell hard on the youthful ears of King Peter II, patiently waiting in Cairo for a chance to resume his overturned throne in Belgrade. Last month Peter had announced that his war minister. Mihailovich, had promised not to fight the Partisans again unless attacked. Peter likewise made it plain that he looked forward to a postwar revival of the triune kingdom of Yugoslavia. But liaison officers recently in Yugoslavia had reported only one possible wartime solution: separate areas for the rivals to defend. The prospects for Peter in the postwar world seemed as dim last week as those...
While Basic English with its 850 words (TIME, Sept. 20) is intended mainly for international communication, Basic Chinese (TIME, Oct. 4) is primarily for Chinese. It consists of 1,000 characters (words) most commonly used by plain people, selected from the 40,000-odd available characters. It can be learned in 96 hours from four little books. Chinese coolies and peasants (85% of the population) now need only bestir themselves a bit to become literate. Jimmy Yen sees to it that they stir increasingly...
...read the 50 or 60 factual volumes in the plain bookcase and drove in Rock' Creek Park. He threatened to move to a hotel. Major General Shelley Marietta, head of Walter Reed, talked him out of it. He refused to pose for a picture, even at the request of the War Department. To hell with the War Department. He was living out an old warrior's life...
Bootleggers, highjackers and just plain thirsty visitors from the drought areas finally dried up the wet areas too. Minneapolis and St. Paul ran out of whiskey because bootleggers bought up the local supply and smuggled it to Seattle, where parched citizens gladly paid up to $8 a pint. In Washington, D.C., organized '"booze-buyer" gangs stripped store shelves of liquor for resale in Virginia and Maryland. Legal whiskey outlets ran out of stock in the states bordering Prohibitionist Mississippi (where OPA officials are "utterly powerless" because "theoretically there is no whiskey in Mississippi"). Even liquorish Manhattan scraped the bottom...
...average Americans. The quality that makes it of contemporary value is its reminder of the distance U.S. intellectuals have traveled since Sinclair Lewis' first works: between Main Street and Mainstream there is the difference between an indictment for murder and the studying of a will. Where the plain American appeared to Mencken and Lewis-and to Author Basso in his early works-as a power well-nigh malignant in his complacency, John Applegate now emerges as the first guardian of the virtues that should be preserved. In Mainstream Author Basso goes farther than anyone: the plain American is also...