Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...home front, he called for immediate economic mobilization under a strong administrator with full authority over economic controls, production and civilian manpower. Abroad, he said, the U.S. should make it plain which areas of the world it is prepared to defend, should form a military alliance with Tito and Franco, arm the Germans, Japanese and Nationalist Chinese, limit Marshall aid to countries which would help the U.S. fight in case...
Always the Normal. Thenceforth, Magician Rinn fervently practiced what he and most of his fellow magicians insistently preached: that no "spirit manifestation" existed that they could not duplicate by plain trickery. They showed how clammy "spirit hands" (that brushed the brows of spectators at dark séances) were concocted out of paraffin or simply from "a kid glove filled with wet sawdust . . . kept on ice." One piece of so-called "ectoplasm" ("ectopiffle would be a better name," remarked a surly magician) proved to be a chunk of animal lung. The only "spirit body" that Rinn failed to duplicate...
...appeals reversed the conviction of Judith Coplon, ex-Justice Department analyst convicted of trying to pass secret documents to the Russians. The court's reason: legal blunders by the FBI in gathering the evidence and making the arrest. The court was sure, however, that her "guilt is plain." She still stood convicted by another court, on a charge of stealing the documents...
...week's end some 8,000 marines broke through the last thin crust of enemy resistance and poured into Hamhung. More kept coming in every hour as tanks bringing up the rear rolled across the coastal plain. Frantic photographers called to the bedraggled men, asked them to "wave and look happy." They obliged. The triumph was marred by more than 30% casualties, but the bulk of the marine division's and the 7th's survivors had reached safety and warmth. It was an epic of great suffering and great valor...
...soul or a cure for the demoralized were not as surefire as they have been in other years. One book, Mr. Jones, Meet the Master, claimed to do neither but pointed a way toward both. Published in 1949, after its author's death, this volume of sincere, plain-spoken sermons and prayers by Senate Chaplain...