Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first steps had been taken quietly, not to say timidly, but last week it was plain that U.S. foreign policy had taken on a new responsibility. The Administration had at last decided to go to the defense of another big slice of the world against the assaults of Communism...
Machine-Tooled Welcome. Truman might be plain Harry Truman at the whistle stops, but he was also a veteran machine politician who could appraise well-organized enthusiasm with a practiced eye. Chicago's Democratic machine-an oldfashioned, well-oiled affair in whose disciplined ranks a precinct captain is a failure unless he can predict his total within a couple of votes-was supposed to organize it down to the last cheer...
...loss of a 6,000-record library when he fled Germany in 1936, Dr. Koch has today one of the world's greatest collections of bird and animal recordings. Muffled in an old tweed coat, he carries his recording equipment from the Scottish moors to the Salisbury Plain, "creeping like a criminal," he says, to capture the call of the grass warbler. Badgered by such background noises as airplanes, trains, barking dogs and high winds, he has triumphantly recorded the moorland cry of the greenshank and the "singing" of the seal on the spray-splashed rocks off the Pembrokeshire...
Larry Todd and Moscow have been pen pals for 27 years. The man on whom the Russians rely for exhaustively detailed daily reports on U.S. foreign policy and other matters, likes to call himself a "plain Yankee from Michigan." He was born in Nottawa, Mich., but there the plainness ends. Swayed by Edward Bellamy's Equality and a speech by Eugene V. Debs, young Todd joined the Socialist Party in 1904. At 29, he was a Washington correspondent, served United Press, International News Service and Federated Press in turn. He joined Tass in 1923 as a stringer, became...
...luncheon, Sir Geoffrey and Rykens politely questioned Babb about his background. "But it was plain," Babb related afterward, "that they already knew everything about me. So I wasn't sure what was up." Next day Babb found out. He was asked if he would like to be president of Unilever's U.S. subsidiary, Lever Bros.-a job which has been vacant ever since Lever Bros, and Charles Luckman parted company three months ago (TIME...