Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they could not go to Kaesong until the talks were really "on track." Meanwhile, the matter of press coverage had "high priority." But at the next briefing session, things were worse than ever. Army and Navy officers did such a bad job describing what had happened that it was plain neither had been at the second truce meeting. A few reporters, who had been drinking too much for their own good, hooted derisively. U.P. Correspondent Earnest Hoberecht angrily cried: "General Ridgway assured us that the briefing officers would attend the conferences. I say we've been double-crossed...
...skill, some critics accuse him of fishing in a backwater; Wyeth's story. telling pictures have more in common with i Qth-than with 20th-century art. To laymen, who generally prefer the old-fashioned kind anyway, that does not matter a bit. What does matter is the plain fact that Wyeth's pictures make sense, call for no translation...
...Senate was willing to gamble that inflation was no longer a threat, and that some of the President's anti-inflation weapons had better be withdrawn. Georgia's conservative Walter George said that rollbacks would "virtually stagnate business." Senators on both sides of the aisle made it plain that they just did not think much of Harry Truman, and they would not trust his Administration with any more authority...
...Pentagon vocabulary closely resembles plain English, but must be learned. "Implement" means do, "formalize" means write it down, and "finalize" means finish it. Cynics devise more irreverent definitions...
...white car now and out of town." But what the Mormons had done with the countryside sent him into an ecstatic chant: "And then below the most lovely and enchanted valley of them all-the great valley around Logan . . . the very core and fruit of Canaan-a vast sweet plain of unimaginable riches-loaded with fruit, lusty with cherry orchards, green with its thick and lush fertility and dotted everywhere with the beauty of incredible tree...