Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote of 130 to 60 (three more than the necessary two-thirds), the N.C.A.A. decided that, as a general rule binding all schools and all conferences, the three-year-old official ban on paying college players was just plain unworkable. Under the old definition of sanity, it was all right to give a football player free tuition plus a paying job around school (to cover room & board), provided the pay was "commensurate" with the job. Under the new law, the pay doesn't have to be commensurate with anything but the going market for hireling amateur athletes...
...cried the Republicans-including Tom Dewey-was so honest that he had contracted a vast debt of honor and had kept himself poverty-stricken for years paying it off. The intimation was plain: Dewey had not offered Hanley a political bribe to surrender the nomination; he had simply been rewarding an upstanding public servant for good works. Nevertheless, Senate investigators called on Old Joe just before the election to quiz him about the whole affair...
Since then, the U.N. and the U.S. have totally ignored the plain China and political opportunity to hit lawbreaker China in the flank with air and sea power. To do so would be to cross the border of China, just seized by a gang of cutthroats who have no respect for anybody else's borders. The U.N. has been concentrating on the danger of provoking the Communists. Judging by the Communist reaction to U.N. politeness, nothing provokes a Red as much as non-provocation...
Fans for Fledermaus. Now, running the world's No. 1 opera house, Rudi Bing is in his plain, southwest-corner office on the ground floor every morning by 10. He walks to work down Seventh Avenue from his apartment in fashionable Essex House, on the edge of Central Park. He travels home for dinner by subway, returns to the Met and seldom gets home again before midnight. The strain of twelve-hour days has already made Bing look a little more drawn and grey than when he took over last summer...
...puddy-tat as plain as he could...