Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...danger was plain to U.S. Delegate Carroll Binder. A perceptive, hard-working newsman, Binder had for almost 20 years been a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, is now the global-minded editor of the Minneapolis Tribune's editorial page. Said he: the U.S. will not retreat one inch from its concept of press freedom. "To seek compromise merely for the sake of reaching some sort of agreement even among the nontotalitarian points of view would hardly promote freedom...
...ordinary photograph of a wonderful man and a real leader, Paul Douglas, on your cover! . . . I think that your covers are excellent and that their backgrounds always have pointed and poignant significance. But, on the other hand, the plain photograph calls special attention to the man who is our only logical choice for the next President...
Throughout the tie-up, union officials made it plain that they thought the President was the man to settle the strike. They would welcome a cozy White House session at which Harry Truman would tell the railroads to be more generous. But the President was dead-set against any further White House intervention...
...story building itself made plain that while Old Tack had rattled out his folksy nonsense, Publisher Howe had become a no-nonsense businessman. He had built up a string of eleven newspapers and a radio chain reaching to the West Coast. Later, he trimmed to an easily manageable five papers (at Amarillo and Lubbock, Texas; Atchison Kans.), two radio stations, and a deposit box full of blue-chip stocks...
Brief Encounter set the story in a London suburb, told it plausibly and sensitively. Its plain, conscience-smitten lovers each nearing respectably married middle age, could never enjoy their unglamorous fun as much as they suffered their pathetic frustration. September Affair's lovers (Joan Fontaine and Joseph Gotten) have wealth, good looks, talent and an itinerary that covers Naples, Rome, Florence and the isle of Capri. They come close to eating their cake and having...