Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become so used to his being President of the U.S. that his annual trip home for the Christmas holidays-a ceremonial which once caused almost as much stir as Admiral Byrd's return from the South Pole-went off as casually as if he were still just a plain U.S. Senator...
...Austria, Red army strength remains at 50,000. There are still no signs of Soviet troop concentrations in Czechoslovakia, but the Russians there have been working on an experiment: landing MIGs, which have wide, tough undercarriages and soft tires, on sod fields. If it works, and plain fields turn out to be usable as jet airports, the Soviet potential for striking out suddenly from hundreds of places would be immeasurably increased. Airfields are being strengthened, but there are few indications of extensive rail and road building, the kind that would be necessary for a long, sustained war, as distinct from...
...Winston soothes France,"said an eight-column banner in London's Daily Express. The Prime Minister's two-day visit to Paris last week was plainly designed to allay French fears before he set sail on the Queen Mary this week for his first official trip to the U.S. since the war. He wanted to assure his political next-door neighbor, French Premier Rene Pleven, that he would make no deals with the Americans which left France out in the cold. And he made it plain that Britain's refusal to join a Western Europe economic...
Chartres Cathedral, standing high above a windswept plain, 55 miles southwest of Paris, was built by farming folk. From the 4th Century, Chartres had been their spiritual center. When their Christian church, on the site of a Druid shrine, was destroyed by pagan Normans in 858, the people built a better one. Three times in the next three centuries, the church was swept by ruinous fires. Each time they made it more splendid than before...
Other officers named to the new executive board were Michael Joseph Halberstam '53 of Torrington, Connecticut and Dunster House as Associate Managing Editor; James Moorfield Storey '53 of Jamaica Plain and Eliot House as Sports Editor; and James Baron Adler '53 of Freeport, New York and Winthrop House as Advertising Manager...