Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...from the outside world. Now and then a lonely radio amateur got through with some word. The nerves of civilization quietly parted. Wide clean streets became tangles of wires. Forty-year-old trees, planted and cared for as trees are cared for only in the plain country, groaned and creaked all through the night, booming as they split open...
...Texas Panhandle is a high (4,000 ft.) plateau, famed for its freakish weather, its cities that rise abruptly above the plain, its ranches, wheat and oil fields. It is so flat and landmarks are so rare that around Amarillo (pop. 52,000) early settlers plowed furrows from settlement to settlement to guide travelers across the trackless, treeless expanse. One such furrow was about 150 miles long. It was so bleak that an army officer who explored it in 1849 reported: "This country is, and must remain, uninhabited forever." Its wind and weather became so famous that Texans said, "There...
Atkinson gave up, closed the business he had run for 14 years. Said he: "For the past two weeks police haven't let anybody come in the place." Crump cops still blockaded Martin's drugstore. It was plain to everyone in Memphis last week that Boss Crump did not want any more Negro Republican bosses around. Growled Crump's Holy Joe: "Governor [Prentice] Cooper was right when he said, 'This is a white man's country...
Figuring that $10 a ticket was more than the party was worth, New Mexico's plain-dealing Governor John E. Miles vetoed plans for an inaugural ball to celebrate his second term...
...recognize that our way of life cannot survive in a Nazified world, it is plain horse sense to crush the avowed enemy while we have freedom of action and an active ally. Let us not shrink from dirty work when we know it has to be done. If we do shrink now, the price we would have to pay later would be infinitely more fearful than any present cost, even if some of our democratic privileges were temporarily surrendered...