Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cinemactor Lex (Tarzan) Barker, 34, confided to a reporter how his marriage to Cinemactress Lana Turner, 34, has converted them both into plain old homebodies: "We just have dinner at home, and never go any place. She owes me a fortune in gin rummy." Lana, said Lex, lets him hang his trophies on the wall. "Some women might stick up their noses at my African shields and my helmets and swords, but Lana's cute about it. She tries on the helmets...
...Unità has been allowed to rent the presses ever since. If it wanted to, the government could make things tougher for L'Unità by refusing to let it use the presses. But the government has shown no signs of doing so, even though the paper makes plain where its allegiance lies...
Miles Davis '54, in supporting the motion to disband the discussion, attributed the meeting's poor turnout to the fact that no one around the College likes to talk. "There are too many plain listeners here," he said. "As for myself, I like to talk...
...Within three years after V-E day, 91 of them were tried for a deluge of crimes-in some cases up to 1,000 murders apiece -and then were hanged in the courtyard of Lower Saxony's yellow-walled Hameln prison. They were buried on the spot in plain coffins in a common unmarked grave. Most were ex-warders from nightmarish Belsen, including suet-faced ex-Commandant Joseph Kramer, the "Beast of Belsen," and his 21-year-old girl assistant Irma Grese, whose particular hobby consisted of turning her fierce dogs loose on Belsen's helpless inmates...
...plain that more clouds still hang over Cairo...