Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rolling plain of western Kansas, near Goodland, looked like a tinseled Christmas card last week. Light snow covered the fields, and green shoots of winter wheat made sparkling polka dots in the white blanket. It was a picture to cheer not only farmers but the whole...
First the Committee plans to distribute leaflets showing what UMT is, and endeavor to find out the reaction of the student body to it. "We must clarify the issues first." Nesin says, "by making plain what our position is." He cautioned, however, that the Committee is not a "Wallace for President" organization...
...Unknown. He wanted to pin Molotov down to a specific stand on each issue, or else make it plain to the world that the Russians had no intention of writing a peace treaty. As the translator rattled off Marshall's words, Molotov went into a huddle with Andrei Vishinsky, scurried through documents, snapped open briefcases. The sound of fluttering paper was sharp in the room...
General Fu was something of a novelty among Chinese generals. In the field, he wore the plain cotton-padded uniform of a private, drove his own jeep, ate with his men. U.S. General Albert C. Wedemeyer had found those men the best-drilled soldiers in China. So, before that, had the Japanese whom General Fu harried for eight years. And so, last year, had the Chinese Communists; Fu's crack cavalry had caught them unprepared in Kalgan, had driven them out and reopened 500 miles of railroad west of Peiping. That area was still firmly in government hands, thanks...
Inspected feature by feature, Actress Johnson is a plain woman. Yet her stage presence, dominated by her huge, sorrow-logged eyes; is delicately compelling. Celia is far less dramatic and complicated than she appears. Says her Old Vic director, John Burrell: "Celia always sticks to simple two and two make four." Noel Coward, one of her fondest fans, complains that in her simple contentment "she has to be batted on the head...