Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Front Czar James F. Byrnes on the much muddled problem of U.S. manpower. Czar Jimmy hugged the report to his well-tailored weskit, declined to reveal its contents. Last week, chivied by suspicious Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Czar Jimmy reluctantly released the report. The reason for his reluctance became plain. Though many of the details had leaked out, the sharp, critical tone had not come through...
...light--and a rather dim, flickering light at that--of last Thursday night's Company Dog smoke, it has been strongly suggested that your correspondent's by-line consist of just plain "Toots," and it probably would be a good idea if such reportorial cuteness could succeed in running the battery of editorial blue pencils, but, alas, for the sake of naval dignity, the "Toots" part will have to remain sort of unofficial...
...scene swarmed police-air-raid wardens, civilian-defense workers, hundreds of plain Philadelphians. Two hundred servicemen, riding in cars that were not smashed, helped pick up dead and injured scattered for four blocks...
...simply refuse to pay his income tax. She sells his beloved house to a high-pitched Russian soprano (oldtime Cinemantrap Olga Baclanova in a miscast comeback). Whenever her husband's long suffering slips a notch, Claudia gravitates to Mother with the velocity of an interplanetary rocket. It is plain that nothing but a miracle or the overwhelming facts of life could rescue Claudia from her mental bassinet. Author Rose Franken makes use of life's facts, to suggest, without really achieving, the miracle. She clouts Claudia with 1) a blitz pregnancy, 2) her mother's imminent death...
...bites (Skat) and "Puratized" of fabric-borne germs. He imagines everything from toothbrushes to children's departments in stores automatically made antiseptic; walls in breweries and bakeries painted with pigments that combat yeast- mold; swimming pools and yachts protected from algae (a small boat, painted with patches of plain and Puratized paint, "grew a beard" in the plain sections, was "cleanshaven" where Puratized...