Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Business, who believe they have a monopoly on experience, good ideas and patriotism . . . Let no one doubt that labor is willing to bear its share of sacrifice. But we cannot bear the whole load. We cannot be a party to any program so adverse to the interests of the plain people...
...Cynical Hoax." Labor's manifesto made it plain that the argument over wage controls was only the climax of "a whole series of shocking developments which we find insupportable." Ever since mobilization began to take shape, labor's nose had been out of joint. The price program was "a cynical hoax"; the wage program was "inflexible, inequitable and unworkable"; the tax program bore down on the working man, favored corporations and the rich...
...school in Jamaica Plain, Turnquist handled the housebreaking a little differently. Reasoning that a dog is basically a clean animal, he developed a glorified barrel-doghouse and called it Kanine Kastle. The dog was confined to the barrel except for short walks at regular intervals. Faced with the prospect of living and sleeping in any mess he made, the dog quickly adjusted his system to a normal routine...
...aside. It turned out a draft treaty that was a defeat for the U.S.-British goal of a truly free press. The draft included a long list of limitations which could be used (all in the name of high-sounding moralities) to serve personal vanity, national pride or just plain bad government...
...plain English, the church's position seemed to be that The Miracle was not very dangerous to the Catholic faith in Italy, but might be quite damaging to the Catholic Church in the U.S. In Italy, the Catholic Church is the established church and can thus afford a certain lenience; in the religiously libertarian U.S., the church feels it must fight for its rights and be vigilant against all slurs...