Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is, moreover, a certain duplicity which is to be detected in the Roman Catholic official mind. One example must suffice here. The Roman Church officially upholds the plain teaching of Christ against remarriage after divorce. But in practice it allows it by means of various legal devices-chiefly by multiplying the possible reasons for annulment. Thus the Roman Church manages to gain on the one hand the reputation for strictness, but on the other is able to allow the remarriage of those it particularly desires to please...
President Dick Boutelle, a plain-talking, shirtsleeve executive who moved up from plant boss in 1949, has plenty of other products to keep him hustling. He still has a big backlog of Air Force C-ngs, and three Fairchild plants on Long Island are busy making everything from components for J47 turbojet engines to Fairchild's own J44 turbojet to power the Firebee robot target plane. Fairchild is also 1) working on a new, 25-ton pocket submarine, and 2) experimenting with a small lightweight earthmover that can be carried...
...what about meat? Even red meat?" Mouthing his words like a music-hall comic, Churchill spluttered: "I am always very chary with percentages . . . I like short words and vulgar fractions. Well, here is the plain vulgar fact: in the first two years of the Tory government, the British nation has actually eaten 400,000 tons more meat, including red meat, than they did in the last two years of the Socialist administration." And with that, Sir Winston Churchill rinsed out his mouth with, of all things, a glass of cold water. Grimacing like the champion brandy drinker that...
...Achinese resented the dominance of Java and of the Javanese in the central government and the government's plain lack of interest in the welfare of outlying provinces. Last summer when a new government was formed at Jakarta, under Prime Minister Ali Sastroamidjojo, the Achinese cup of wrath brimmed over. The new regime was supported by the Communists (though not Communist itself), and no member of the Masjumi (Moslem) Party, Indonesia's largest, was in the cabinet...
...like snakes, waiting for the first sign of weakness. It's frightening when you know that some of the boys carry switchblade knives. There's always a first test. One of them will start yelling, or singing, or jumping over chairs, or begin saying something unmistakably plain about, well . . . your legs...