Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gets worse. Ralson d'etre is one one he tosses off, and it's not in the dictionary. Mandel should learn how to write plain English himself before he tells other people...
Something had to be done fast in Foggy Bottom. Already, Republicans on Capitol Hill and plain citizens everywhere were crying that MacArthur had been sacked to appease Britain. Brusquely the State Department announced: "The United States recognizes the National Government of China and has not and does not contemplate discussions with the Peking regime regarding the Japanese peace settlement." And, even though the British hadn't brought the subject up, State added: "The United States has vigorously opposed the admission of the Peking regime to the United Nations. We shall continue to follow that policy." Actually, this was pretty...
Under the Truman principle, General Legion should be fired for trying to widen or spread the war. It would be moral for American boys to die on the brown hills of Anatolia but immoral to help anti-Communist Greeks fight the same enemy on the brown plain of Thrace...
Private Life: Quiet, inclined to be aloof, a teetotaler and a man of plain tastes who shuns all but the quietest social engagements. Likes hunting and fishing, married 35 years to former Helen Hazel Moore. They have three grown children all service folk: two daughters who are married to Army lieutenant colonels and a West Pointer son, James Jr., who is an Air Force lieutenant...
...Ernie Bevin had shouldered his 250-lb. bulk up to the chairmanship of Britain's Trades Union Congress, the top spot in British labor. At high council tables he used plain, blunt, carefully thought-out words and facts like clenched fists to pummel his opponents...