Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minks & Sport Shirts. By then Las Vegas' wealthy wives were out buying $500 Hattie Carnegie gowns for the opening, and movie stars, gamblers, tourists and hundreds of plain Nevada citizens were poised for the great invasion. When they surged in on opening night, wearing everything from mink capes to pedal pushers, from dinner jackets to sport shirts, they found that Wilbur had not disappointed them...
Wrote Judge Emmett Wilson in the court's opinion: "The position of this country in the family of nations . . . demands that every state in the Union accept and act upon the [U.N.] Charter according to its plain language." In plain language the Charter declares it the intention of the U.N. "to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights" and pledges all the signers to respect such rights "without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion...
John B. McGinty--Jamaica Plain; Catholic Club...
...Most Rev. Joseph Kiwanuka is everything that a bishop should be. His dignity and calm inspire automatic respect, his words are simple and wise, his broad smile is warm with charity for men. But he might still be just plain Joe Kiwanuka, African tribesman, if he had not happened to be reading a book one day when a Roman Catholic missionary priest came to visit his native village...
...operas, and so were the faithful in Menotti's audience. The word spread: Menotti had taken the grand airs out of opera, brought to it the realism and immediacy of the 20th Century theater. And, best of all, his operas were in English and the plain playgoer could understand every word...