Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overcome its allies' reservations to a strong coalition policy, has become more and more isolated in the last few years. Before France began to capitulate to Red pressure this year, there were plenty of signs that France would do just that. In Britain, the signs were almost as plain...
...plain fact is that the bridge is sadly in need of major repair. It did not suddenly collapse; rather, its more serious defects have gradually become apparent...
...love with her yet left her unfulfilled. For weeks poor Edwina tried every device in her varied repertoire, but she could not heat the simmering Percy to an honest boil. Edwina iked. Percy brooded. It was an intolerable situation for an Anthropopithecus Hirsutus Africanus, or, in plain English...
...busy making plans to turn the 100 acres of rice into 1,000 and the1,000 into 2,000. By last year, his vision and enthusiasm had helped the Greeks put 4,000 acres of the Anthele plain under cultivation. For the first time in history Greece was able to export rice. The gain to the Greek economy on an original...
...that time, all the people of Anthele plain had come to know Walter Packard as "Papou" (Grandfather). Children picked wildflowers for him. Church bells in all the villages rang when his familiar jeep was spotted bumping along the road from Athens. Even the road itself was renamed Packard in his honor. But Papou...