Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Phat Diem's southern border, where mountains leap suddenly from the rice plain like rocks from the sea, the Viet Minhs occasionally raid the bishop's territory. But so far there has been no big attack. Bui Chu and Phat Diem still manage to maintain their independent existence. At the back of Monsignor Le Huu Tu's episcopal palace, the lathes grind out crude grenades, mortars and one Rube Goldberg contraption, proudly described by one of the priests as "our flying bomb...
...Averell Harriman and Speechwriter George Elsey came prepared with a draft of what to say, but they found that Harry Truman had already scribbled out a few words of his own. He read them, in a bristling tone, to his advisers. They turned to polishing and toning down the plain rhetoric of the President. When it was finished, more than 90 minutes later, the statement was almost pure Harry Truman. The President marched off to read it to 175 reporters...
...text, by Critic Robert Melville, is almost as obscure as it is ecstatic, but the book gets down to specifics in a plain-talking letter from Sutherland himself. "It is necessary to work parallel with nature-according to our personal temperaments," Sutherland writes. "We are deceived if we work contrary to our inclinations or to nature . . . If I have felt that I must paraphrase what I see, it is because to do so gives me a shock of surprise-a new valuation of things." That might explain why Sutherland begins with careful drawings of what he sees, and ends with...
Reporter Shannon was drawing no conclusions from the schools she had seen, thought the plain facts alarming enough in themselves. Judging by the mail coming into the Journal from aroused parents, most readers seemed to think...
Sherry & Law. The school is in the country outside London, the time is in the future-some time between tomorrow and 1984-and the teen-age girls are being trained for "State Service" under socialism. The Misses Edge and Baker, who run the school, are plain and loveless. Since their authority and comfort are all they have, and all that life and their government are apt to allot them, they spend their time trying to expand the first and deepen the second. They tipple sherry and sneak smokes, their word is law, and all seems for the best...