Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After most of the argument was completed, Monte Appel, No. i contest man for the Taft forces, struck the unexpected blow. If the Foster group were seated, he said evenly, Harry Sommers would be re-elected as national committeeman. Or, in plain words, if Sommers would scratch the back of the Foster faction by repudiating his official delegation, Foster & Co. would scratch his by supporting him for another term...
...until the cold facts sunk in. Instead, the Observer confessed: "Everything . . . turns on the question; Was there, prior to the Yalu raids, a lull, a tacit cease-fire or near-cease-fire in Korea?" The Observer had done a little quick homework and was startled by its findings: "The plain fact-continuous and hence unreported-is that there has been a long-drawn battle which has been in progress almost since the start of the armistice talks." In this light, the Observer was alarmed at the way Britons were talking. "It is still possible to criticize the raids because they...
...under his paternalistic hand the government voted children's allowances, homes for the aged, jobs for disabled workers-the good works of plodding sewer socialism. In 1948 Drees, a freethinker who belongs to no church, moved into the Premier's big, sober room at No. 4, Plain 1813, The Hague, to head a coalition of Catholics and Socialists...
Last week at a court hearing in preparation for trial of the suit, McCarthy made it plain what his case would be: publications that criticize him are Communist or followers of the party line. Defense Lawyer Tracy H. Ferguson brought this out by questioning McCarthy. Why had McCarthy picked the Post-Standard to sue when other papers have in words or substance said the same things about him? McCarthy: "I decided that sooner or later one of these left-wing smear articles would go so far that we'd have to teach them a lesson. Your paper went even...
...Kids are now parents (one has three children). So far, the grown-up prodigies have met none of the dire fates that are often predicted for precocious sprouts: not one has cracked up mentally or got into any serious trouble. Not one has even turned out to be just plain shiftless...