Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city of Twin Falls, which, from your article, is the parent city of Jerome . . . is situated 14 miles south of Jerome . . . True, Twin Falls is the wholesale center of this entire area, including Jerome, but to label Jerome as its satellite slot-machine town is just plain poor reporting to put it mildly. I feel that your article was written by an anti-slot-machine propagandist...
Velde may learn-but his two bad slips indicate that he is not one of the FBI's brighter products. A Congressman who thinks he is going to investigate churches needs to pound the beat a while before he gets promoted to the plain-clothes squad...
...came & went in a steady stream at the home of Rumanian Commissar Gheor-ghiu-Dej, and police guards were expanded at Red Ministers' homes. In some Rumanian villages, small-fry Communist's carried clubs or staves for protection, because they were not sure how people would react. Plain people around Prague were reported guardedly joyful. Red officials were so uncertain of their control that in many of the satellite areas they withheld the news of Stalin's death an extra 24 hours...
...Chicago's Francis Chapin is a cheerful conservative with his feet firmly planted in the dazzle of impressionism. "I chose the regatta as a subject," he says, "because it was just plain old pictorial." His prizewinning result, as light and easy as Rattner's is dark and difficult, proves that there is nothing wrong with such a modest ambition. Taken together, the two paintings speak well for the scope and vitality...
...plain purpose of these committees is particularly reprehensible: subpoenaing witnesses in order to entrap them by interrogation into the minutest details in the long distant past and not their political beliefs so as to subject them to contempt or perjury indictments. The most notorious example is that of the Internal Security Subcommittee in the Lattimore case...