Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three Precious Days. On July 18, Taejon waited in steaming silence. The Reds were grouping on the plain in front of the ramshackle city. That night, disguised in U.S. fatigues and baggy Korean civilian dress, the Communists came. The next day, Taejon rose convulsively to life in a hail of sniper bullets, a thunder of Communist artillery fire, the rising, smoky glare of burning gasoline stores. For three days. Dean and his ragged men fought in the streets and alleys and from house to house, contesting every inch of the Red advance. On the third day, Dean manned...
...easy. Albania, according to Athanassios, is locked tight in the grip of 400 Russian civilians who completely control the government and the economy, and another 150 Russian officers who run the army and the police. The native population is for the most part sick with starvation, tuberculosis or plain terror. "It is almost impossible to avoid the security police who are everywhere," says Athanassios. "You can't even trust your own brother...
...With Communism knocking at the Negro's back door, we cannot afford to let educational segregation barriers stand. It is as plain as the red flag in Russia that continued segregation and suppression can and will cause the death of democracy by the hands of its own leaders...
...nothing but temporary vacancy of mind-such words as 'basic;5 'major,' 'over-all,' 'personal,' 'values,' 'exciting' (everything from a new handbag to a new baby) ; then . . . all the tribal adornments which, being cast off, may disclose the plain man we would like to be: no frames of reference, field theories, or apperception protocols; no texture, prior to, or in terms of; and the least amount of coordination, dynamics, and concepts...
...Comic Strip. In the contemporary section of the 1953 Salon, the standouts were a brilliant tapestry design done by Jean Picart le Doux and an expertly drawn Quartet of musicians by Hilaire Camille. There was also some plain trash. The trashiest: two heavyhanded pieces of political propaganda by Communist Painter André Fougeron. One, called Atlantic Civilization, had all the artistic merit of a low-class comic strip; it showed a soldier shooting from a brassy U.S. automobile while a bloated capitalist looked on gloatingly and the proletariat wept over their coffins. Le Figaro called Fougeron's work...