Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles from the city's heart. By 11 a.m. one day last month, 500,000 people blotted out the flag-decked stands, overflowed on to nearby railroad embankments. In the reviewing stand, flanked by his Politburo, stood Joseph Stalin himself. The Soviet national anthem blared out over the plain. "Dear Comrades, Muscovites," crackled the loudspeakers, "the festival of Stalin's aviation has started...
Some 200 hand-picked Allied officers (and a Yugoslav) watched intently one day last week on Salisbury Plain as Britain demonstrated her prize new .280-cal. rifle. More than simple curiosity was involved: this is the weapon with which Britain hopes to equip not only her own infantrymen (who have been using the bolt-action, single-shot .303-cal. Lee-Enfield since the South African War), but all the North Atlantic Treaty nations. Disagreement over it caused a hitch at the recent small-arms conference in Washington, where Britain's Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell argued...
...busy boning up on Canadian history and making speeches at home (see SCIENCE). He also found time to attend a London Variety Club luncheon at which he was given a life membership certificate (putting him on equal footing with Harry Truman) and hailed as "Brother Barker." As just plain "Papa," he joined his wife on the lawn of Clarence House, their London home, to give photographers a homey picture of royal family life with Prince Charles and Princess Anne, who is one year old this week, in the crawling stage and the proud possessor of six teeth...
...letters all have foreign stamps, and they are all grateful. Though most of them begin "Dear Doctor," or "Dear Professor," the man to whom they are addressed never even finished eighth grade. He is just plain Henry Dunn, 60, caretaker of the University of Texas' Main Building...
...asked Congress for a transfusion," cried Price Boss Di Salle last week, "and they gave us an enema." Like the rest of the Administration, Rabelaisian Mike Di Salle was wailing that the weakened controls law threatened imminent inflation. But last week it was plain that an older law-supply and demand-was still at work. Instead of rising, a lot of prices were falling...