Word: plain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...visit as "an unprecedented loss of face." But from surprising quarters of Asia came indications that, far from taking any pleasure in U.S. discomfiture, even some neutralists found in it food for sober thought about Communist imperialism. Declared Rangoon's Guardian: "The lesson of Japan is all too plain to us in Burma and in the smaller countries of Asia. None of us can afford to give the least ground to those who think nothing of using violence to force their aims and objects on a peaceable majority...
...past compete with the streamlined, glass-walled modern city. The 14th century duomo, its pinnacles and spires topped by saints and angels, stands in the geographic center of the city; sightseers and lovers go by elevator to the roof to admire the view of the wide Lombard plain and the snowy crest of Mont Blanc. The grim battlements of Sforzesco Castle still brood over their grassy moat, and Leonardo da Vinci's faded master piece, The Last Supper, is slowly peeling on the wall of the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie. The curious tourist will have a difficult...
...Plain Talk. "We have come to a time that calls for plain talk," he said, reading off a 2,700-word statement aimed directly at Vice President Nixon and indirectly at the whole Eisenhower Administration. "I am deeply convinced, and deeply concerned, that those now assuming control of the Republican Party have failed to make clear where this party is heading and where it proposes to lead the nation. I find it unreasonable-in these times-that the leading Republican candidate for the presidential nomination has firmly insisted upon making known his program and his policies not before, but only...
Second Room. By week's end, too, the army made it plain just who was calling the tunes in revolutionary Turkey. The Cabinet, Spokesman Alatli announced, would carry out the orders of the National Union Committee, which numbered not 21 officers as first announced but some 50. "Obviously," he said, "if the country has no National Assembly, some kind of assembly must take power and pass laws. This power is in the hands of the National Union Committee. The government is responsible to the committee...
...plain-spoken letter that prompted visiting President Eisenhower to invite him and six of his friends to see the U.S. for themselves, Chilean University Student Patricio Fernández drew a bitter contrast. He compared the failure of the U.S. to finance the economic development of Latin America with "the initiative of the U.S. and its immense sacrifices in Europe-the Marshall Plan." Last week, as the Chileans finished their tour of the U.S., they made it plain that they had come, seen and not been conquered...