Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bound to baffle almost anyone in or out of this world. Even such worldlings as the U.S. Embassy staff in Paris were confused-Ambassador Jefferson Caffery last week found it necessary to summon them all to a special briefing session. How could you explain the situation to a plain American, or a Frenchman-or to a man from Mars? The situation was really sublimely simple...
...Council knew what that meant. During his 26-month tenure as Soviet delegate to the Security Council, Gromyko used the plain, ordinary, unadulterated veto 18 times. But only twice before did he unleash the full, blinding power of the double veto, which stops discussion before it can even get started...
After five days, the Rotarians departed, leaving Rio pleased, relieved, and vaguely disappointed. The cariocas had expected antics and amusement, maybe a few Lana Turners and Betty Grables. Instead they had seen middleaged, middle-class North America. Said a Rio hairdresser wistfully: "They were very nice-but so plain...
...develop a vitamin-rich soybean to look and taste like the common black bean which is the chief source of protein for millions of Latin Americans. The diners at the Comedor Popular had eaten the product of his work without knowing that it was anything more than the plain black bean...
...delighted many of the "leisure class"-the only class, perhaps, which could fully appreciate the conspicuous haughtiness of Veblen's leisurely, elaborate prose. It became Veblen's fate to fall between two stools-between those who thought he was just funny and those who thought he was plain dangerous...