Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Letter from Italy. Nevertheless, a few people in Italy remembered Francesco, and at the end of World War II he was pleased to get a letter from Francavilla Fontana, his struggling home town on the featureless plain of Brindisi. The letter was from a family with ten children, so desperately poor that they were reduced to clothing themselves with paper bags. Francesco did not know them, and furthermore his shop was making only $15 a week. But, he reflected, his wife was making good wages at a ladies' belt factory; on re-reading the letter he could not help...
...diplomatic complications were added spice for society's new season in Madrid. Plain Madrileños kept their eyes on the main course. "All this gilt and polish is very fine," observed one citizen. "But let's hope that something more substantial and necessary will come afterwards : good green American dollars...
...Germany as Der Antwortmann; in France as L'Homme Qui Salt; in Holland as De Antwoord-Man; to Poland as Dr. Wszech-wiedzki. A surprising number of questions pour in from behind the Iron Curtain. Those not answered on the air are answered by letters sent in plain envelopes and without mention of The Answer Man. Ticklish political questions are cleared through the State Department...
...examining the lumps, warts and old tattoo marks on the body politic. But in New York last week, it was intent on deeper surgery. Though its hearings were closed, and could only be followed by buttonholing the doctors at the operating-room door, the committee's interests were plain. It wanted to know all about 1) Underworld Kingpin Frank Costello, and 2) former Mayor and present U.S. Ambassador to Mexico William O'Dwyer...
...book so much better than any of his others that it hardly seems to have been written by the same man; a book that has already become a classic in the modern tragedy of the godless humanitarian.* His latest novel, The Age of Longing, makes it plain that Arthur Koestler is one of those unhappy intellectuals obviously in need of a moral and spiritual boss. When he forswore Communism, he was left spiritually homeless, stranded between the Yogi and the Commissar, and believing in neither...