Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Macmillan made plain the British feeling that the U.S. 1) puts too much faith in the U.N. and 2) overestimates the rationality of Egypt's Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser, whom the British consider utterly reckless and untrustworthy. But both the Prime Minister and the President recognized, as Macmillan said, that Britain and the U.S. need each other's friendship and support, and cannot afford to let misunderstandings...
...reincarnation of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era to a very liberal interpretation of Karl Marx." Now that a G.O.P. Administration has made a record for four years, Aiken believes that modifiers in front of the party's name serve only to divide its members. His suggested substitute: just plain "Republican...
...hour show." Said Edith (Daisy Mae) Adams, the Fairy Godmother: "Why, Ed Sullivan has just one full rehearsal and you NEVER know-where you are." She twirled a baton-"Gotta get in shape with my magic wand" -then skipped off to sing her one number, Impossible ("for a plain yellow pumpkin to become a golden carriage, for a plain country bumpkin and a prince to join in marriage...
...student visitors from Gaza "to win back all Palestine." Diplomats in Cairo believe that Nasser may accept indefinite stationing of U.N. Emergency Force troops to keep peace along the border, but will insist on control over Gaza and the Gulf of Aqaba. Last week John Foster Dulles made plain that the U.S. will not be disposed to release the $50 million in blocked Egyptian funds so long as Nasser shows himself intractable...
...does a man write a bestselling historical novel fit for a movie version? Before a Boston TV camera last week five nimble minds tossed ideas back and forth for such a book glorifying President Chester Alan Arthur, whose plain life left plenty of room for fictional embroidery. The object: to demonstrate "brainstorming" (TIME, Feb. 18), a technique of group creativity that joins a lot of brains into assault on a single problem or concept. The brainstormers-two professors, an inventor, a hospital director and Cartoonist Al Capp-also laid down some amusing spoofs, e.g., a Chinese friend comforts Arthur...