Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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China's Red masters have a special word for thought control: hsueh hsi, or "the practice of learning." China's plain people use a more telling expression: Communist indoctrination, which presses on them without pause or pity, is simply hsi nao, or "washing the brain." From Hong Kong last week, TIME Correspondent Robert Neville cabled a survey of brain washing in Red China...
...football game since the war's end without any pay other than travel expenses for one trip a year. If the Band isn't actually the main drawing card at these games, it at least shares the gridiron honors equally with the men in padding. As a matter of plain fact, the H.A.A. and the College owe the Band a debt of gratitude...
Instead, the old ballplayer disintegrated, subtly but suddenly, into a jerky, rubber-faced caricature of all the rough diamonds of the diamond since the days of Shoeless Joe Jackson. Something seemed to go wrong with his eyes, and he was seized, in plain view of all, with electric charges of wild vigor, wild friendliness and wild anxiety. He emitted a hoarse, gobbling cry. The audience, instantly enslaved, gave one seal-like bark of obedient laughter and then bathed him in 20 seconds of delighted applause. Oldtime Funnyman Bert Lahr (Hot-Cha!, George...
...three of whom fall in love with a visiting American. In catching the aching mood of this adolescent world, Renoir is aided by the excellent performances of Patricia Walters (the heroine, the "I" of the novel), Adrienne Corri (the beautiful girl who scores for a time over the plain girl--who, thank Renoir, is in fact plain), and Radha (the half-caste). But essentially this is a director's and not an actor's picture, and most oaf the credit must go to Renoir...
...enthusiasm, the Dining Halls Department has overextended itself: not content with the new trays, it has redesigned the soup bowls as well. The plain truth of it is that the new soup bowls are too big to fit anywhere on the new trays...