Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million-a-year business. Although one-quarter of British women still use neither powder nor lipstick, eye shadow sales have jumped 36% in the past year; deodorants are up 7%. Today, the average Englishwoman spends $8 annually on cosmetics. The British teen-ager was traditionally a purposefully plain miss, encased in wool-jumper uniform topped by a straw boater, who was supposed to be interested only in her pony. Now she starts powdering at 14, spends $20 a year on cosmetics...
...hour chosen by astrologers as auspicious, Ceylon's Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke last week swore in history's first female Prime Minister of an independent country. Coolly dignified in a plain white cotton sari, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike. 44, stepped to the balcony to give a pressed-palm salute to the crowd below, and then, predictably, burst into tears. That was just how she had won last week's election...
...spirit of Bandung has plainly soured. But Sukarno made plain that his quarrel was only with Red China; he had nothing against Communists generally. He recently accepted a $10 million loan from Russia to build an iron and steel works, a $12 million loan from Czechoslovakia to build a dozen chemical plants. This week, with due fanfare, he will be presented with the Lenin peace prize. "You may call my theories red," he told a gathering of teachers last week. "Red is the color of the rising sun, which will bring bright weather in the morning...
...soon as possible-some have already gone back to set up medical relief teams. They are sure that Christianity is a lasting force in the Congo (example: the Senate of the new republic, a moderating influence in the crisis, has many mission-trained Christian members). But it is also plain that the riots are precipitating the end of an era in the Congo. The Rev. Glenn Murray, 51, a Presbyterian missionary who has spent 20 years in Africa, takes an optimistic long view. "This whole thing will work out best for the church." he said. "It was very difficult...
...Harry F. Guggenheim, president of the Guggenheim Foundation, Sweeney's actions seemed plain disloyalty to what Guggenheim regarded as a great building. But there was another and unexpected problem-the building's extraordinary popularity. In nine months, more than 750,000 people have swarmed through it, and as the queues outside got longer and longer. Guggenheim began to wonder whether the museum should not offer more to the public in the form of more popular lectures, art courses, films and concerts. To such a purist as Sweeney, this was the last straw: Guggenheim's program, he felt...