Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls are a study of Gallic contrasts. Mick Micheyl is sunny; Juliette Greco is subterranean. In her simple sheath or plain skirt and white broadcloth shirtwaist, Mick affects the saucy style of a French street urchin-the impertinent type Parisians call un titi. Juliette, in her clinging, floor-length black, displays the kind of world-weariness that once moved Jean Cocteau to speak of "the 'ruinous jewel of her heart." Both Mick and Juliette, intense admirers insist, do not merely sing-they have something...
...other Teamster chieftains made it plain that the resolutions were not to be interpreted as a personal victory for Beck. Growled Jimmy Hoffa, Teamster boss in the Central States: "I don't think anybody won a victory." If Dave Beck had been the only top Teamster in trouble, the others might have dumped him overboard. But with Central Conference Chairman Hoffa facing federal charges of conspiracy and bribery and with Western Conference Chairman Frank Brewster thickly splashed with scandal, the Teamsters decided to put up a united front-even if it was only a front...
...Veneto, the flat northeastern plain of Italy between the Alps and the Adriatic where once Caesar's armies stood guard, stands an outpost of the new U.S. Army. It is no sword-shield-and-visor legion of Caesar's hour; neither is it the sprawling sea of men and machines that fought the brutal battles of World War II. It is a unique organism, the Southern European Task Force-SETAF-whose job it is to support NATO's ground armies in that area. A tightly packed, well-trained band of about 6,000 men, SETAF comprises...
...separate meeting. Aramburu made it plain to the brass that once the constitution is revised, he will stick to his plan to hold general elections next February and turn over power to whatever government is chosen. The twin elections that Aramburu plans will be the country's first free and fair votes in eleven years...
...buys a Tattersall waistcoat and takes dancing lessons. One awful night the high-spirited Una finds the answer to the question: "Where can we go on Sunday in Belfast?" She goes with Dev to his basement flat, and in a seduction scene of pathetic ineptitude, it becomes all too plain that he as well as she is a virgin. They stay that...