Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...volunteers live in a group of twelve cottages facing Salisbury Plain. Paired off two to a cottage, they have meals delivered at the door, enjoy a free pint of beer or cider daily, newspapers, magazines, unlimited long-distance telephone service, a nine-hole golf links. Only restriction: guests must keep a 30-yard distance from everyone but their cottage partners. Visitors are not allowed unless heavily masked...
...Samuel has not suddenly turned Spanish republican. Now Viscount Templewood, he describes himself as an "English monarchist," suggests that a new Spanish monarchy might bring back peace and even "vigorous social reform" with the crown. But he makes plain his feeling that almost any form of government would be an improvement over Franco's, and cannot hide his disgust with the Franco regime...
Through three days of meetings last week the Institute, of which TIME was a cosponsor, did not depart far from Padilla's keynote. The 23 speakers were primarily concerned with plain people-what they would eat and wear, how they thought and felt and worshiped, and what would happen to them if war came again...
...Institute was not only about plain people, it was for plain people. Some 20,000 Clevelanders attended the Institute's five sessions. Newspapers and radio chains carried the speeches to millions throughout the country. Cleveland high-school students in forums of their own discussed the questions raised at the Institute. Said TIME'S Editor Henry R. Luce: "A meeting like this is the commonest thing in the communal life of America -it is also the very core and pattern of our body politic, each of us, with due humility, a sacred individual, all of us, proudly, members...
Welles. Before taking issue with Larreta, Welles made it plain that he had not lost any part of his faith in the Pan-American system he helped to build. "We would be unduly ingenuous," he said, "if we were overimpressed by the propaganda which is reaching our shores in ever-increasing volume, and which is designed to persuade us that our accomplishments are negligible, that our system is intended merely to benefit the strong at the expense of the weak, and that our form of Western democracy is an outmoded relic of a decadent past...