Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarthy, or he isn't. If he does see them, he is faced with the choice of endorsing them or keeping his mouth shut, not to mention active opposition. Senator Lodge is smart enough to see what McCarthyism means. We must read his support of the Wisconsin Senator as plain-vote-getting expediency, nothing else. The same applies to his happy acceptance of Dick Nixon's praise on platforms throughout Massachusetts. What does this say about the depth of Lodge's convictions? How can we be sure that Lodge will not deal away his convictions on foreign policy to save...
...Administration, said Eisenhower, thinks that "all that is necessary to keep [the South] in the bag is a paternalistic-pat on the head once every four years . . . [and] its low admonition that all the South's blessings flow from Washington. You know and I know that is plain bunk." Again & again he ridiculed the Administration's picture of the "fairy godfather in Washington," attacked "Washington powermongers" and "Administration arrogance toward the South...
Inflation: "The cause of inflation can, I believe, be made plain. Let's stay in the kitchen a moment. It is as though we were making bread and while we answered the phone a malicious neighbor [i.e., Russia] dumped a whole cup of yeast into the bowl. That's the inflation story. In fact, that is inflation...
...Leader was careful not to make any warlike promises which might queer the party's official peace offensive. But he made it plain that short of war, the Soviet Union will assist "struggles of liberation," as in Korea, struggles for the "retirement" of "warlike governments" and the overthrow of capitalism, as in Czechoslovakia and China, and the promotion of war between "imperialist" states...
...Prince Curnonsky, "has nothing to do with the need for nourishment." The propagation of this great truth has brought the 220-lb. prince not only his title and his brave paunch but an endless succession of free meals. His only regret is that he realized it so late. Born plain Maurice-Edmond Sailland, he ate well, as most people do in his native Loire valley, up to the age of 15, but only for the sake of sustenance. Then his wealthy family hired an illiterate peasant girl named Marie Chevalier as their cook. A native genius, Marie could whip...