Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...businessman, he was often inclined toward Britain's Conservatives; at times he was frankly critical of the Labor Party. But by his fair and plain-talking approach he soon gained the Labor Government's full confidence and friendship. Said the Manchester Guardian: "Few American ambassadors to Britain have earned as much respect and good will...
...Copper's Pay. Bill Drury was a plainclothesman but his clothes made a mockery of the title-his suits were" about as plain as a Capone mobster's funeral, and almost as expensive. He became a lieutenant and acting captain, and quickly fell into the pattern which Chicagoans expect of their police captains-a rich man's life on a copper's pay. He made a fetish of wearing a hat and, as his hair began to disappear in later years, he even kept one on while eating in the classiest restaurants. "I'd rather...
Then Murphy called 400 administrative heads of the force to a meeting in the barnlike line-up room at Headquarters, and kicked every last one of the city's 336 plainclothesmen back into uniform. It was the most drastic police shake-up in history. But Murphy made it plain that this was only a beginning. "In every instance where corruption exists," he warned, "the commanding officer . . . will be carefully investigated...
...only defense of Kimpo (South Korea's best airfield) was a brave but hopeless charge by several hundred green Communist security troops. The marines waited until the screaming Reds were a few yards away, then mowed them down. Said a sweating U.S. staff sergeant: "It was just plain murder...
...ease the pain and hormones to slow the cancer's spread, thus prolonged the life they could not save. Week after week Miss Pierce went back for treatment. Once she told a clinic social worker: "I have never met with such kindness before in my life." It was plain to Memorial officials that Margaret Pierce could pay only nominal sums for her care; most of it was free. In a year she paid only...