Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, all the predictions were pure guesses. This was made plain by Army Secretary Frank Pace Jr., who said that it was not yet possible to provide a broad blueprint of what military requirements were going to be for fiscal 1951. Without such a blueprint, no one could tell how big the arms burden would be and what controls would be needed...
Maid service at Harvard is an institution as old as the University itself. Through the years the cleaning women with the whimsical brooms have been called "sweeps," "goodies," and more recently "biddies." The latest term of affection is just plain "maids"--those who value their cleaning service dare use no other term, for the value of labor-management relations is learned in the college suite...
Pesky Problem. The source of Sault Ste. Marie's epidemic was plain. Last March five youngsters with ringworm were allowed back in school too soon after routine treatment by their family doctors. All summer the disease spread (encouraged by a long damp spell and barbers' unsterilized clippers). Not until school opened did authorities realize how far it had got out of hand...
...brothers are widowers; both live only for the A & P. But there the similarity ends. John is thin, George is plump. John is bold and expansive, George cautious and conservative. John is gregarious and full of quips, George shy and sobersided. John stands and talks; George sits and listens. Plain and unpretentious George, in his drab black suit, sedate tie and stiff collar, could easily be taken for a retired motorman dressed up for Sunday...
...Disenchanted, Novelist Schulberg set the touch control on his typewriter at High Tragedy, but he bangs a machine so hard that the adjustment kept slipping to Tense Melodrama. The plain fact is that Fitzgerald's story calls for a Fitzgerald to tell it. Yet Author Schulberg has thought hard, guessed shrewdly, and written the truth as he sees and feels it. His Manley Halliday may not be the whole Fitzgerald, but he is a figure to remember...