Word: plain
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Road Fed & Ice Free. The heartland is a 500-mile-long loop of sea, plain and jagged mountain, notable because-in Alaska's trackless central land mass-it is stitched together by year-round transportation. It begins in the southwest at the island naval base of Kodiak, encompasses the ice-free ports of Seward and Whittier, fans up along the 471-mile Alaska Railroad, and there hooks on to the Alaska (Alcan) Highway, last segment of the 2,350-mile overland route from...
Under the law some 347 Italian and German opera singers, businessmen, musicians and plain citizens were snatched off ships and planes arriving last week in New York, and packed off behind the wire fences of Ellis Island. There they were 800 yards from the Statue of Liberty, and a good deal farther from the land they had hopefully come to see. They were among the first victims of the new restrictions on immigration in the Communist-control bill passed by the Congress over Harry Truman's veto. Italy was outraged; Western Germany was hurt. Both sent protests to Secretary...
...Oklahoma's churchgoers were equally enraptured. Many Baptists were outraged when Bill Alexander introduced billiard tables and Sunday-night dances in his church recreation hall (to keep youngsters out of trouble, he explains). Others just plain disliked his flamboyance, thought a minister had no call to go riding around on elephants and making a holy show of himself. They remembered that he was once a nightclub master of ceremonies, that he had dressed up in a clawhammer coat and cowboy boots to marry Roy Rogers and Movie Actress Dale Evans. They didn't like his cross-country jaunting...
Tabitha is raised the plain daughter of a plain doctor in a plain town. With an ingratiating knack for saying the right thing or nothing at all, she quickly rises to become the mistress of a wealthy Londoner, and the social chairwoman of a group of anti-Victorian artists. When her man dies, Tabitha gracefully marries an manufacturer, and finds herself running a near-Victorian household. From there she moves on to inn-keeping, and finally to dependence on her grandchildren...
...Republic of China shall have freedom of . . . religious belief." With these fine words, the Chinese Communist government tried last fall to soothe anxious Christians, inside China and out. For a while, many a Protestant missionary and even some old China hands were hopeful. But it was soon made plain, even to the hopeful Christians who had swallowed the "agrarian reform" line, that Communists in China feel no more kindly toward Christianity than do Communists in the U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia and Hungary...