Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...83rd was not distinguished by great debates nor marked by sharp party cleavage. But the Administration took Congress seriously, and Congress took itself seriously. It worked haltingly and messily-but very hard. When the session ended, it became plain that Eisenhower and his congressional leaders between them had halted and perhaps reversed the drift toward welfare-statism...
Special Train to Brussels. Confronted with such plain-spoken unanimity from his EDC partners, Mendes urgently needed U.S. and British backing. He signally failed to get it from the U.S. John Foster Dulles was exasperated by Mendès' suggestion that Russia would have several months' time-between the French As sembly's approval of the emasculated EDC and final ratification by the French Senate-to talk "concessions" over Germany. Said a tough State Department cable to the British Foreign Office: "A new delaying condition prior to complete ratification [would convince the U.S.] that France cannot...
...combat force, its three-fighter air force, and stopped the Communists seven miles from Rangoon. In the spring of 1949, U Nu flew north in his flowing longyi and organized the recapture of Mandalay. In 1950 and 1951, Burma's army gained the decisive Irrawaddy Plain. In 1952 the Burmese edged the Chinese Nationalists behind the deep-cut Salween gorges. For a man of peace, U Nu had accomplished a reasonable military...
...stories as good as any current in English. They are stories about South Africa that do not. blessedly, derive from the headlines, and war tales that are moving without resorting to war-fiction language and cliches. One or two are complete failures. But the two best ones make it plain that Author Krige is more than promising: 1) The Dream, which lyrically describes a happy young boy's bewilderment when death robs him of his favorite aunt and cousins, then takes his baby brother as well; 2) The Coffin, a fine yarn about a virile old South African farmer...
When Henry Gauthier-Villars, known in Paris literary circles as plain "Willy," met little Gabrielle Colette in Châtillon-Coligny, he was "completely stunned" by the sight of her long, braided hair and "airy grace." At their wedding dinner in 1893, 20-year-old Colette drank too much champagne and fell fast asleep over the table. "As I woke up, I heard my husband's voice...