Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jones stubbornly refused to buy. Ex-Governor Smith, he recalls, came to see him "two or three times during the negotiations and indicated clearly his real feeling toward the President-which was that of utter contempt. He made it plain he had gone to the White House . . . only to help his friend Mr. Raskob [onetime chairman of the Democratic National Committee] get some of his money out of a losing venture...
Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas knows the political risk of discussing racial tension. But last week, after a Cook County grand jury failed to indict Cicero, Ill. race rioters, and indicted instead the lawyer for a Negro mob victim, Douglas spoke a few plain, courageous words...
...their final defense line behind the Rhine, the defenders regrouped according to plan. Joined by units of the French and British armies, they prepared to launch a counterattack. Observed by SHAPE Commander Eisenhower, fresh from NATO's impressive "Operation Counterthrust" (TIME, Oct. 1) on the northwest German plain, the invaders will be repulsed, as they always are when the script calls...
...Turkey isn't standing still, or slipping backward. It's advancing. Turkish agricultural land is expanding; this year there is an alltime high of 10.5 million hectares under cultivation. The Turk is a hard worker and he's used to sacrifice. Last month, the central Anatolian plain was seething with harvest activity. Though 1,283 ECA combines have been imported since 1948, most of the threshing is done by ancient methods. Oxen pull sleds, equipped with sharp flint points, around & around in the harvested wheat stocks, cutting them apart. Then the peasant and his family toss...
...Ontario Securities Commission finally started to crack down a year ago by revoking the licenses of some promoters, and barring others from the mails. (The promoters got around that by using plain envelopes.) Bay Street's sharpies, who used to be known as the "Dirty Sixty," now number only a dingy 30. Before long, under a new U.S.-Canada pact now being drafted, SEC hopes to stamp out the racket entirely. The pact would permit the Justice Department to extradite defrauding stock pushers for trial...