Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Three Rooms. His life is mostly spent inside the foreboding walls of that collection of churches, palaces and barracks in Moscow called the Kremlin. His office is large and plain, decorated only by the pictures of Marx and Engels and a death mask in white plaster of Lenin. His private apartment, once the dwelling of the Kremlin's military commander, is only three rooms...
Last fortnight, radio operators on other ships in the North Atlantic were startled to hear a British battleship broadcast one day, right out in plain English: "Read Luke XV: 6." Bible looker-uppers found this quotation : ". . . Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost." (One of the troopships had strayed in fog, been shepherded back by two destroyers...