Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like "under the clock at the Biltmore"--the stillness of the book-lined chamber gives it a musty, scholarly flavor. There are books for every type of student in the 6,250-book reference collection. Prison ethnologists, for instance, delight in the Dictionary of the Underworld which sets into plain language such technical phrases as slice (knife wound) and to slip on the heat (v., trans; to shool a person, especially to death). Sociologists specializing in higher strata may find more help in the Who's Who of Polish Americans, Librarians, Texans, or even the Argentinian Quien en Quien. Detrett...
...approved methods for extracting information. Soon they implicated other Buenos Aires socialites. who apparently thought amateurish bomb-throwing would somehow shake Peron (actually it seems to have strengthened his regime). The cops arrested about 225 other solid Argentine citizens-"oligarchs," the press called them-seizing many plain and fancy weapons (military rifles, big-game guns, nitroglycerin). The police reported that the "oligarchs" had ordered 1,000 identically cut grey suits, supposedly for use as uniforms in some future uprising. The 17th precinct station became a sort of society resort. One Buenos Aires matron, unable to send wine...
...speaking.) That afternoon, at the jammed Plaza de Mayo, Perón blamed rising prices, the shortage of meat and the wave of bombings on an Unnamed "foreign power." Next day his newspaper Democracies, obligingly made the identification clear: "What is the name of our enemy in plain language? The United States of America...
...cartooning, Cleveland Plain Dealer Cartoonist Edward D. Kuekes, for his drawing, "Aftermath...
...wife has been dead for 17 years, and pays her no notice except for her weekly resurrection at séances. His mousy womenfolk humor him and blame it all on a lorry smashup. The drone of an airplane sends him into whimpering hysterics. Even more trying to plain-as-rain Grace is her loony father's mirking assumption that mild Mr. Holme, the staid widower and pensioned policeman who lives down the street, is an "old bull" bent on seducing...