Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adopting what I may refer to as grasshopper tactics . . . Each leap ends on a blade of grass which turns out to be a flimsy pretext requiring a jump to a new but equally unstable position . . . The long process of proposal and counterproposal, of promises made and withdrawn, made it plain that good faith-that prerequisite to settlement-was absent from the Soviet mind...
Through the mountain valleys of Peru and along the dry coastal plain, soldiers and police tracked down the men blamed for the brief, bloody uprising in Callao (TIME, Oct. 11). By week's end more than 1,000 Apristas had been jailed. Each day the searchers hoped to bring in Aprista No. 1, famed Haya de la Torre...
...life of the Plebe, for instance, has been famed in song and story as the epitome of refined torture. He must serve as the butt of every upperclassman's ill-temper, quirks of humor, or plain cussedness, and he must take everything that is thrown at him without a murmur, for he is lower than the lowest galley-slave in the eyes of his more advanced brothers-in-arms. And these latter companions, having been Plebes once themselves, are not apt to let him forget how low this...
When word came through yesterday that 75 Smith students had offered to knit "beautiful" socks for the Cleveland Indians, a sizeable quota of Cliffedwellers made it plain that, win or lose, the Boston Braves were still their number one heroes...
Feudin', fussin', and a-fighting have occupied the National Student Association for the first year and a half of its existence. The new federation of American college men and women has spent so much of its time politicking, seeking Reds under beds, and just plain organizing, that many of its best friends are fearful that NSA shall soon die of exhaustion. Last summer's national convention in Madison proved little else than that student organizations can waste time as magnificently as anyone else. And that is old news...