Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important office is tried like a suspected criminal before he takes up his work and is thereafter likely at any moment to be assailed and denounced like an escaped convict, what sort of persons may we expect to have in public employment? Certainly they will not be the courageous, plain-spoken and intelligent men & women whom the urgency of our times demands. They are more likely to be weak mediocrities whose concern, like that of the minor functionary in far-off Russia, is to keep out of trouble . . . whose loftiest ambition is to make no mistakes...
...currently 80? to $1.10 per hour); Di Giorgio had voluntarily carried workmen's compensation insurance for his employees. His homes for workers were no palaces (some were made out of old refrigerator cars), but they were clean, whitewashed and handy to running hot & cold water. He had installed plain but serviceable concrete swimming pools, had contributed land and $150,000 for a grammar school adjoining his property. And-most important of all-he had worked hard to take the curse off highly seasonal work by planting crops in sequence, giving year-around jobs to a permanent force...
...truth it did seem in busy Bangkok last week that the returning King's welcome would be more than adequate without elephants. All over the sunburnt city Siamese soldiers, sailors, royal princes and plain workmen rushed last-minute preparations. Along the broad, apartment-lined King's Walk, 5,000 soldiers marched and countermarched in rehearsal, while their fellows joined hands to hold back imaginary crowds pressing forward from the sidewalks. On the parade grounds near by, carpenters worked hard to complete the wooden tower that would serve late this month as a funeral pyre for the late King...
...soloists in the first part of the program, did everything that was asked of them. If plain song gets a little boring to an untrained ear, it nevertheless events a truly pious mood, and Paul Tibbetts, Robert Beekwith, and Robert Gartside joined with Conductor Woodworth and the chorus in a polished presentation. From 17th century plain chant to 20th century linear counterpoint, the Glee Club and Choral Society showed what a fine musical organization...
...plays in a Western band in Beaumont, Texas, the result added up to a song; he gave it a hillbilly beat and tried it on his steel guitar. After the war, he tried to sell the song, but everyone around Beaumont thought the whole idea was just plain silly. Last year he made a recording-he didn't know how to write the notes down-and sent it to a friend with the Johnnie Lee Wills band. Says Tulsa's Johnnie Lee, the idol of the Southwest's square-toe boot and blue-jean set: "At first...