Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City's 17,000 doctors, many of whom would be victims themselves, could not possibly handle the situation. Dentists, pharmacists, chemists would have to be trained to give emergency professional care. So would many plain civilians, who could be taught to perform one specific task-carrying litters, treating shock or burns, administering blood plasma...
Renaissance Sculptor Antonio Filarete completed the massive central doors of St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome more than five centuries ago. His bronze doors were flanked, somewhat incongruously, by plain oak ones-and have been ever since. Last week the Vatican got around to the flanking doors, commissioned two traditionalist Italian sculptors named Alfredo Biagini and Venanzo Crocetti to replace them with bronze bas-reliefs celebrating the history of the church. Critics mildly approved the Vatican's conservative choices, raised a chorus of hurrahs when they learned that it had also commissioned Giacomo Manzu, a controversial modern...
...case, it was plain last week that, hoarding bans or not, the U.S. was going to be pinched for many materials because of the failure of the stockpiling program. And although he had not taken over the job until last November, just before many prices such as rubber started up, Munitions Board Boss Hubert E. Howard took the rap. Last week he handed in his resignation and President Truman accepted...
...Harder? The fast price rises and sudden shortages of materials made plain that the armament load would hit civilian production much harder than expected when the arms actually began to roll out in the next six months. (Nickel was already so short that some automakers were talking about going back to painted "chrome work" as in early World War II days...
...kill the smuggler and dump his passengers onto a Mexican beach. Then Morgan's troubles multiply until they drive him into a much riskier scheme: to pilot a getaway boat for four ruthless holdup men and kill them for the reward money before they can fulfill their plain intention of murdering...