Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Oops, Sorry. At week's end the plain talk seemed to be getting home-a little bit. West German Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, speaking in German, said defensively that his country had been forced to deal first with the rebuilding of its war-battered economy. "Not until this task las been successfully accomplished." said he official translation of his speech, could Germany think of any "moral'' obligations to others. World War II ended 15 years ago and the German economic miracle has happened since. Four hours later the uproar in the back rooms had reached such...
Nkrumah's Hail, Nasser's Hug. Delivered from a single page of handwritten notes, the speech made plain that Castro is an exceptionally talented demagogue in his own right. Passages on the ills of colonialism and the consequences of underdevelopment struck home with many Latin American delegates, but Castro's 100% line-up with the Reds hit home even harder. Said Chile's delegation chief, Daniel Schweitzer: "Castro exposed himself in all ways." Among the Latin Americans, only the delegation from Mexico applauded him, with occasional support from Venezuela and Bolivia. But with Khrushchev cuing...
...conference early in September, the U.S. promised an emergency $500 million to help troubled Latin America ease poverty, but held that the bulk of development cash must be raised by Latin America itself through "effective monetary and fiscal policies." What the U.S. hinted at-tough taxation-was translated into plain words last week in a speech in Brazil by Washington's Ambassador to Rio, John Moors Cabot...
...imagine and it awakened every single nerve . . ."), but it is pallid stuff compared with the rape, incest, flagellation and other veneries of Peyton Place and Return to Peyton Place. If Author Metalious continues such deception, her readers will all go back to Jack Woodford, the U.S.'s leading plain-wrapper author (Dangerous Love, Illicit...
...became an eccentric just to show he didn't give a damn about those who snubbed him. He collected a circle of hangers-on who called him "Lord" Timothy and he gloried in the title. In his curious book called A Pickle for the Knowing Ones; or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress, he proclaimed: "Ime the first Lord in the younited States of Amercay ... It is the voice of the peopel and I cant help it." He kept a private poet and had him crowned at an elaborate public ceremony, once brought a lion from New York...