Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plain Language. From Greece the general went to Italy, whose leaders were distressed by the reports that Greek and Turkish soldiers did not want to serve under Italy's General Maurizio de Castiglione, commander of NATO's southern Europe land forces. Instead, they will probably report directly to the Mediterranean naval commander, U.S. Admiral Robert B. Carney...
...Naples harbor after a week of brisk maneuvers during which former allies and enemies had worked together in smooth efficiency over the western Mediterranean. One incident had marred the maneuvers. When a British commander wanted an Italian commander to stop sending messages in code, he sent word: "Use plain language." The Italian thought his idiom was being criticized, and froze into sulky silence. Carney ruled that henceforth the proper NATO instruction should be "Do not encode...
...blouse, so I painted her that way." In time the great and near-great began calling him Kiki, and whenever he gave a party, they flocked to it dressed to the teeth. Kiki himself liked to receive them in a sweater, and he served them nothing but sandwiches and plain water. His formula for giving a party-"Why go to the expense of serving them champagne, when they'll come anyway?"-was as cynical as his formula for success: "I paint the women slimmer than they are and their jewels fatter...
University of California (Berkeley) "...the U of C is a bed of sexual perversion, left wing teaching and narcotic addiction, with plain, old-fashioned love-making regarded as corny...
...plain that the fluoride men were speaking to rising opposition. Seattle audiences had all too obviously been moved by the questionable science of pamphlets that named fluorides as the cause of "arterial and venous hardening . . . cavities in head bones; premature age . . . changes of disposition; irritability, apprehension, discontent, undue financial anxiety; loss of memory, satyriasis, nymphomania...