Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordinarily uses unless it is prepared to go to war. The booklets were presented to the South American diplomats by the State Department's urbane Dean Acheson and burly Spruille Braden, onetime ambassador in Buenos Aires and outspoken enemy of Juan Domingo Peron's military regime. Their plain-spoken Blue Book charged that two successive totalitarian Governments of Neighbor Argentina...
...Magdeburg and Stuttgart. Some of the celebrants had been flown in by a former R.C.A.F. flying instructor named Ross C. ("Bill") Shepherd, who offered to fly amputation cases to the party on a free shuttle service. (He was overwhelmed with applications from veterans who wanted to go and by plain citizens who wanted to pay the expense...
Static from the Sun. While the theorists spun their theories, two extra-large sunspots crept across the sun. The spots were many times bigger than the earth, big enough to be seen through plain smoked glass. Asked if they would tangle up earth's radios, Astronomer Robert Coles of Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium said, with a gleam in his eye, that "he would not be surprised...
...explorers' engravings of Marquesas Islanders dressed from top to toe in nothing but elegant tattooed abstractions. The men excelled at tattooing each other, and the women (who had several husbands apiece) spent what little spare time they had weaving plain mats and baskets...
From here on in, things develop into a kind of actors' field day, with alternations of slapstick and high comedy, carefully understated emotion, and plain-&-simple bathos. Before he is through, Director Victor Fleming (Gone With the Wind) manages to lug in almost everything except a flood, a fire, an Indian massacre and a trained collie. But the dialogue somehow holds up under the strain, and there are a few wonderful sequences: Joan Blondell as the life of a rowdy party; Gable on a supercilious tour through a farmhouse; Gable and Garson engaged in a hen hunt. Adaptable Cinemactress...