Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less than the Pilgrims, 1951's U.S. lived in a state of danger. The Pilgrims, however, built their fort before they feasted. Had 1951's U.S.? Should the U.S. be living so well when so many gaps in its defense were plain to see? In many items, notably aircraft (see BUSINESS & FINANCE) U.S. defense lagged far behind schedule. Meanwhile, did one U.S. garage lack a new automobile because the factory was turning out tanks? Did one U.S. roof lie bare because radar was needed more than television sets...
...victims and victimizers usually meet in scenes charged with emotional or physical violence, frequently both, and almost always the heel has a field day at the expense of someone better but weaker (Butterfield 8, Appointment in Samarra, scores of tough, tense short stories). Usually O'Hara makes it plain that heels annoy him almost as strongly as he is drawn to them. In his last novel, the bestselling A Rage to Live, he was almost as sympathetic to the betraying wife as he was to the hurt husband...
Reporters were thrown back on guesses, suspicions and plain washroom rumors. They cruised around picking up hitchhiking G.I.s ("the floating interview") or collaring construction workers in bars. Some crawled to the conclusion that the first blast was a fizzle, because of the facial expressions of scientists returning to Las Vegas' El Cortez Hotel. The few and scanty press releases given out by public-relations officers were virtually useless. One picture showed G.I.s in the area unloading cans of fruit cocktail...
...Otis plain to see this game Pitts two teams, even-Stevens in Emery way," the almond-eyed Seer remarked...
...slow starvation of life in China, contrasted with American welfare. The point is clear--that the "billion or more" people of the underdeveloped regions are increasingly susceptible to the misery that comes of knowing they could be better off, if only the right changes could be made. It is plain that we would do well to get them with us, lest they be organized against...