Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elbow. The Amir was a mass of glittering green. His head was ringed by a gold and platinum crown studded with $3,000,000 worth of emeralds. More emeralds flashed from his silver-braided Moslem long coat and sword belt. Only his shoes, British-made black oxfords, were plain. While Arab minstrels wailed in the background, 500 red-fezzed subjects came up one by one, bowed, and dropped gold pieces (worth $7 each) at his feet...
After ten months of floundering around, Whitney was glad to step aside and let Trippe take over again. The lesson was plain: Trippe would run things his own way because he had shown that he was the only man who could run them...
...Harvard Hall, was chosen vice-president of the Class of 1953. Faith Gowen of Dobba Ferry, New York and Barnard Hall, will be secretary; Judith Robison of New York City and Barnard Hall; treasurer; Rachel Mellinger of Springfield, Ohio, and Cabot Hall and Cannaught O'Connell of Jamaica Plain, Class representatives...
...Real Culprit." The 15 Protestant pastors who sat in Sofia's courtroom accused of espionage and black-marketeering (TIME, March 7) were the spiritual descendants of the same U.S. missionaries. As their trial wore on, it became plain that the pastors were being tried solely because of their Western traditions and connections. The Communist prosecutor, his witnesses and even the defendants' lawyers joined in denouncing "American imperialism as the real culprit on trial...
This, thought Denmark's Communist daily, was too good to overlook. The ambassador's "escapist" party, crowed Land og Folk, pointed an ugly moral. Said Land og Folk: "It makes one think of other festivals where aristocrats amused themselves by dressing up as plain peasants -that was in the period preceding the French Revolution [when] the people of Versailles fled from reality into a rustic idyll . . . [Today again] exploited masses are rising and claiming their right-but our aristocrats do not want to hear...