Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country's defeat left him a civilian, and like other kinsmen of the Imperial family, without title. His Tokyo mansion had been bombed; he built himself a modest cottage on the site of the ruins. There he and his wife, the former Princess Hanako Kanin, settled down as plain Mr. & Mrs. Hironobu Kacho...
...Communists made plain that they were out to wreck rather than ratify. Radio Peking let forth a blast by Foreign Minister Chou Enlai. Just to make sure it would reach home to a land which does not recognize Red China diplomatically, Chou cabled his message, in plain, uncoded English and delivered by Western Union, to Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Gist of Chou's remarks...
Washington called Peking's story "a bare-faced lie." Dave Barrett spoke up from Formosa: "I never at any time . . . attempted to assassinate or contrive the assassination of anyone." The real moral of the story is as plain as Mao meant it to be: outsiders are no longer safe in Red China. Riva and Yamaguchi are the first foreigners to be sentenced to death as counterrevolutionaries, while Bishop Martina is the first Catholic clergyman to be sentenced to life in prison. He is fairly big game, as acting representative in Peking for Archbishop Antonio Riberi, papal internuncio for China...
...Tristano and his group plays has no special name; Tristano just calls it "contemporary." Technically, it calls for improvisation so personal that each musician plays his own carefree melody in his own key, in his own rhythm, developing his own harmonies. In ensemble, the results strike most ears as plain noise, but the devoted are reminded of such comparatively restrained innovators as Bartok and Schoenberg...
...Germans' triumphal entry into Paris, carefully studied the layout of a strategic airfield, and spent at least one comfortable night cheekily sleeping in the bed of an absent German general. Like most men who escaped through Occupied France, he speaks almost with awe of the peasants and plain folk who unhesitatingly risked their lives to help...