Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grandstand play, capitalizing mercilessly on the lurking fear of nuclear holocaust, Khrushchev's brash maneuver might win him some propaganda advantage with plain people around the world. And some U.S. officials continued to argue that Khrushchev genuinely wants some measure of disarmament, which would permit him to switch military manpower and funds into raising Soviet living standards. But in blasting off so crudely from his U.N. launching pad, Nikita had displayed a brute cynicism that repelled responsible statesmen everywhere. "It sounds so easy," said an Asian delegate to the U.N. "I think he must take us for morons...
...clear that De Gaulle detested the first alternative, considered the second impractical. His own preference, he made plain, was the third alternative-self-government of a type similar to that now operating in the twelve nations of France's new African Community. But even this would not come until the fighting was over: Algerians, proclaimed De Gaulle, would make their decision in elections to be held "at the latest four years after the actual restoration of peace; that is to say, once a situation has been established in which not more than 200 people a year lose their lives...
Words & Deeds. Early in the week Moscow had made a plain bid to undercut the U.N. subcommittee by proposing that the nine nations that attended the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indo-China should meet again and revive the three-power (India, Poland, Canada) International Control Commission for Laos. The U.S., recalling that the Laos government itself 16 months ago refused to tolerate the Control Commission's interference any longer, rejected the Soviet proposal, recommended instead "the cessation of Communist intervention and subversion" in Laos. Backing up its words with deeds, the U.S. continued to pour into Vientiane light military...
...last here's a man I can ask to my apartment without making my husband the least bit jealous," said Rita, in a statement not exactly calculated to flatter big (a gefilte 198½ lbs.), bagel-eyed Harry Golden, 57, bestselling author (Only in America, For 2? Plain) and publisher of the Carolina Israelite. Back in Manhattan, Rita's husband, Viking Press Executive Tom Guinzburg, tossed in his own 2?, said: "We're all good Israelis...
...Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3) 5. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (7) 6. The Art of Llewellyn Jones, Bonner (5) 7. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (6) 8. California Street, Busch 9. The Cave, Warren 10. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Gallico (9) NONFICTION 1. For 2? Plain, Golden (1) 2. The Status Seekers, Packard (2) 3. The Years With Ross, Thurber (4) 4. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson (3) 5. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White (5) 6. The Great Impostor, Crichton (10) 7. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (6) 8. Richard...