Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What does Khrushchev hope to accomplish at the U.N.? He himself made one of his purposes plain when he announced that the Western chiefs of state should meet him at the U.N. to achieve "a rapid solution" on disarmament. As part of his campaign to alienate Afro-Asian neutrals from the West. Khrushchev clearly plans to launch a new disarmament spectacular at the General Assembly...
...economic reports that flow from the nation's banks are rarely distinguished for what Will Rogers called "plain talk-in'," often seem to have been written in a soundproof room full of adding machines. Last week readers of the monthly Business Review of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia got a pleasant surprise. In a report on "The Business Outlook," Economist John R. Bunting Jr. took off after those who believe that another recession is either on the way or inevitable. "The national mood," said Bunting, "is changing. The cycle doesn't have to repeat itself. This...
...Reader Mewhinney is not the first to confuse Nell with Louise, who served as the King's Catholic mistress. When an anti-Catholic mob in Oxford mistook Nell for her unpopular rival, the plain-speaking actress stuck her head out the carriage window and said, "Pray, good people, be civil; I am the Protestant whore...
After that, it was plain sailing. Mrs. A. took the kitten home, and as it grew, she got used to cats. She stopped walking on the edge of the sidewalk, stopped having cat nightmares, even had pleasant dreams of kittens. Then her dreams took a different turn: in them she violently counterattacked her domineering father. Somehow, report the therapists, this resolved some conflict in her unconscious. Mrs. A. stopped her frantic busying around the house and, for the first time since childhood, has stopped biting her nails. A year after beginning treatment, the therapists report in the British Medical Journal...
...until next May even to get appointments for interviews. The drain on Cuba's supply of trained men-engineers, economists, doctors-last week persuaded Castro to cancel all existing exit permits. Henceforth, those who want to leave home must fill out an elaborately detailed questionnaire. Its aim was plain: to keep tab on those who are getting out and to provide a handy list of their assets in case they do not come back...