Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Meantime, as the Huks gathered in the mountains to prepare for further raids- as soon as they could stop laughing over Magsaysay's silly maunderings-plain Filipinos were wondering about their citizens' army. "How can you form a citizens' army," asked one Manilan, "if you cannot tell who is the loyal citizen and who is the dissident...
Back in Wittenberg, the Reformation had begun. Many priests, monks and nuns were leaving the cloister and getting married. Mass was celebrated in plain clothes, and parts of it recited in German. The laity took the cup of Communion to its own lips, and it smashed the images of the saints...
...improve him. He was prematurely an irascible and peevish old man, according to Bainton. He railed against both the rival Protestant sects and the Jews. He talked a blue streak, some of it the plain vulgarity of his generation, and lorded it crudely over his congregation: "You ungrateful beasts, you are not worthy of the treasure of the gospel. If you don't improve, I will stop preaching rather than cast pearls before swine...
...north-south mountain ranges which thrust up 16 peaks of 10,000 feet or more. On the east coast, the mountains become sheer rock walls, dropping 1,500 to 7,000 feet into the sea. On the west they fall away in successive terraces down to a wide coastal plain, thereby giving the island its Chinese name: Taiwan (Terraced...
...just plain nice and not a bit like the boys back home," decided Missouri's blonde, well-curved "Mimi" Medart, 16, after meeting Egypt's rolypoly King Farouk. Mimi, daughter of onetime Cinemactress Donal Blossom and St. Louis Restaurateur William Medart, first caught the monarch's roving eye in the casino at Deauville. Next day, the two had a chat on the beach, which Farouk followed with a kingly bouquet of flowers. Asked by reporters if she would like to marry royalty, Mimi burbled, "Sure, if I loved him. Aren't Rita and Aly Khan happy...