Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these plain-spoken words, the late Pope Pius XI defined the Roman Catholic Church's implacable stand against the modern world's biggest heresy. Last week, the Vatican's newspaper advocated compromise with Soviet Russia, widely regarded as Communism's headquarters...
Boss Hague made it plain that he was not retiring as chairman of the Democratic Party in Jersey City, Hudson County and the state of New Jersey. Nor was he retiring as Eastern vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "Don't worry," he told the faithful, "I'll be around for a long time...
...U.S.S.R., TIME Correspondent Sam Welles found out that the voice of Russia's plain people was very different from the voice of official Moscow (TIME, May 26). Last week he listened to some of Finland's people and cabled...
...Gaullist message to the French people, Malraux works daily from 7 a.m. till dinner as De Gaulle's unofficial public relations counsel ("his left-hand man," say friends). In his bright, modernistic apartment at the edge of Paris' Bois de Boulogne, he is entrenched behind a plain wooden table in which he keeps a loaded revolver ("I am high on the list of those with whom the Communists would gladly dispense"); his telephone is out of sight on the floor ("I hate to look at it"). He is still a romantic, considers Farewell to Arms and For Whom...
Himber took one look at her plain little face and groaned. But she got the job, sang on Himber's Studebaker Champions program for 13 weeks. Then a song plugger told her about a big audition at NBC. Like the songstress in Frederic Wakeman's The Hucksters, she was cautioned to sing "loud and fast. . . and on the beat." About 150 other girls were trying out, too ("An acre of mink and silver fox, honey, and me in a little old suit"). But Lucky Strike's late George Washington Hill liked Fredda's hep style...