Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain-born Brooklyn and Broadway character, Murray Garsson had been arrested half a dozen times for crimes ranging from plain robbery to evasion of corporation laws. His only conviction was for speeding (sentence suspended). He had been a pal of New York City's gang kingpins Dutch Schultz and Owney Madden, was suspected of being their partner in illicit breweries. The FBI had Garsson down as suspect of arranging protection for big-time bootleggers...
...Jewish strip would include some of the country's richest agricultural land in the valleys of Sharon and Esdraelon, and the coastal plain to which their forefathers aspired from Moses' time down to 100 B.C. (they lost control of it to the Romans some 40 years later). The Arabs would get an enclave around Jaffa; the rest of their share would be mostly hilly pastureland. The British would hold on to Jerusalem and Bethlehem, and to the barren triangle from Beersheba south to the strategic base of Aqaba...
Five. Home is Five's world, with mother as its center. Life is uncomplicated, in balance. Anxious to help and to please, he shuns pioneering, keeps his mother posted on his doings. Five likes to sleep eleven hours, eat plain food, ride tricycles, copy numbers and designs, wash himself (but he often gets stuck, scrubbing the same knee over & over unless mother helps...
...Plain Talk. In an epilogue "To Americans," windy Author Stein winds up her lecture with a piece of plain talk...
...First Service Command announced last weekend that 7,589 vacancies are available for national guard and reserve officers interested in returning to active duty, and a trip to the Boston Post Office is all that has to be done. Plain, ordinary A.U.S. brass isn't being slighted, either; apply, and they hand you a reserve or national guard commission...