Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost had it," Munro says. "We surprised them, and at one stage were leading, 5 to 0. The defense was going well, goalie Dick Thomas came up with some fine saves, and the midfields were controlling the hall. But at the end, we just plain...
...easily transferable commodities. But then, little about Eleanor Roosevelt's life has been easy; her autumnal blossoming is also the triumph of a shy, lonely ugly duckling. "I must have been very sensitive, and with an inordinate desire for affection and praise-perhaps brought on by ... my plain looks . . ." she wrote of her childhood. She had a child's uneasy knowledge of tragedy-even before she was orphaned at ten: her father had a "weakness"-drink. His wife died before him, and "My grandmother did not feel that she could trust [him] to take care...
...alien when she came home three years.later to struggle in dutiful, unhappy competition with the belles of New York society. But when she was 19 her second cousin Franklin Roosevelt proposed marriage-a marriage approved by adults on both sides of the family. She rejoiced, as only a plain girl can, in a handsome husband, solemnly sure that the world was hers at last...
Last week the Peronistas struck back. The Central Bank of Argentina announced that henceforth import permits will be required for many U.S. magazines and the Argentine post office said that 13 of them were banned from the mails. The banks made it plain that no import licenses would be issued. The 13: LIFE, Look, Cue, Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, Vision, U.S. News & World Report, United Nations World, Quick, Business Week, Editor & Publisher, Harper's and Cosmopolitan. TIME was left off the new list only because it has been banned from Argentina ever since...
...where Defoe found novelty in a human footstep, the science-fictioneer stakes everything on such inhuman images as "a six-foot egg made of greenish gelatin" or "nine feet of slimy green trunk tapering ... to a pointed top." Where Defoe laid down his ideas in a prose as plain as his images, his successor revels in portentous complexity, e.g., "Remembrance occurs when, at all the synapses in a given network 'y,' the permanently echoing frequencies are duplicated as transient circulating frequencies...