Word: plain
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Missouri's Senator Thomas C. Hennings Jr. asked his staff to study "Giant in a Snare." Said he: "I've read it twice already. It states just what has needed to be made plain for a long time." New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges put it in the Congressional Record on the day the magazine hit newsstands. Various people suggested that it be made required reading for groups as different as civic-club members, high-school students, State Department officials, and Congressmen...
...allies, it was a time for laying it on the line, in plain words...
When rattle-tongued Washington society columnist Mary ("Molly") Van Rensselaer Thayer fell in love with the Air Force, she made it plain that she expected plenty of reciprocation. Though Molly writes all her copy lying in bed, her enthusiasms sometimes stir her to enormous exertions. As a foreign correspondent, she fell in love with the Balkans so vigorously that Communist Chieftain Ana Pauker gave her four interviews. When she went to South America, she fell in love with it, too, and promptly took a trip up the Amazon...
...plain words on the world crisis last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), none were plainer-or better received-than those of Rhys Manly Sale, energetic president of the Ford Motor Co. of Canada. "There is not enough awareness of the danger in this country," Sale told the members of Toronto's Canadian Club. "I can't see this policy of business-as-usual with a touch of defense for flavoring...
This week, on the 50th anniversary of his death, Benefactor Verdi's guests will pay their special respects to his memory. Wearing the simple costume Verdi prescribed for them-the men, black suits, string ties and soft wide-brimmed hats, the women, plain, dark grey dresses-they will gather in the Casa's open courtyard, lay flowers on the tomb where Verdi and his wife Giuseppina lie buried. At night, those still able to go to La Scala may sit in the royal box for a performance of Verdi's Requiem...