Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King Farouk, and shortly thereafter displaced Mohammed Naguib, their pipe-smoking front man, Nasser, an assistant postmaster's son and professional soldier, seemed a bright hope for a new Egypt. His smile was disarming; he confessed he knew little about running a country, but he was a plain man, plainly honest, eager to end the effete and selfish rule of the pashas. Fighting in the losing Palestine war he became convinced that his country's real problem was not Israel but the poverty of its people. The Eisenhower Administration pinned its hopes on him as the keystone...
Most spectacular part of the book is a collection of 248 color photographs (see following pages) showing the world at worship in its almost infinite variety-under spire and cupola, in unadorned home and amid Renaissance splendor, with plain, quiet face and behind garish ceremonial mask. Along with essays on the fundamentals of the six faiths, the book presents samplings of their scriptures. Standout among the articles: the introductory essay on "How Mankind Worships" by the late Dr. Paul Hutchinson. longtime (1947-55) editor of the Christian Century. Though an uncompromising enemy of the syncretistic idea that what mankind needs...
...amateurs, the eight-year-old championship has become the nation's best test of a hunting dog in the field. "What we look for." said L. B. ('Bud") Maytag, 68, the retired, silver-haired washing-machine king and perennial host for the event, "is just a plain shooting dog with his Sunday clothes...
...Tatting to East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry Disembarking from H.M.S. Cressy , the fourth in a series of watercolors which sprang from the war games that Parker, a lead-soldier enthusiast, played until recently on the mudflat at suburban Mamaroneck, N.Y. Parker's drenched watercolors. done on rolls of plain shelf paper, now appear in the collections of both the Whitney and the Museum of Modern...
While some Detroiters gossiped that G.M., still scared by congressional investigations and antitrust threats, was purposely holding down production, few in the auto industry accepted that theory. The plain fact was that G.M.'s conservatively styled new models had not caught the fancy of the public as the more radical styling of Ford and Chrysler had. For this reason, automen thought that G.M. was probably gearing its production a bit closer to sales than either Ford or Chrysler. On the other hand, Ford's and Chrysler's models were selling so well that both were stepping...