Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Walter Reuther called on the White House to back up Mitchell. But the next day, in his press conference, President Eisenhower made it clear that Mitchell did not represent the Administration view. It was plain that the matter would drop there. Secretary Mitchell had no intention of proposing legislation that would abrogate the state laws against union shops...
With that, Scotland will be content. Like the first mate in the whaling story, all Scotland asks of England is "plain seevility, an' that of the commonest, God-damndest kind...
...attorneys, often strident and harsh, were gentle with Susan, but their questions were in plain English. She told of her affair with Dr. Sam, beginning in 1952, when she worked in the Bay View Hospital run by Sheppard's family. "I was a lab technician, and he was a doctor," she said, as though explaining everything. Their relations continued at fleeting moments until last March, when he took her to the home of a friend in California for a week. Did they share the same bed? the prosecutor asked. She said faintly...
Stretched out on his plain brass bed, retching in pain, the Pope seemed first to be suffering an appendicitis attack; then, as evidence of intestinal hemorrhage appeared, the doctors feared a perforated ulcer. X rays were ordered. The sacrament of Extreme Unction was administered. Gradually the pain began to subside...
...good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in," says Hemingway. "That kind of symbol sticks out like raisins in raisin bread. Raisin bread is all right, but plain bread is better." He opens two bottles of beer and continues: "I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks...