Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alleyways. Next day, as the strike continued, the crowd became even bolder. With a calm that chilled the spines of onlookers, a group of some 500 quietly stood their ground as a unit of Radar's militia advanced toward them, firing over their heads. Soon brown uniforms and plain working clothes were toe to toe, bare inches apart. There was a moment of silence; then the uniforms turned away amid jeers and cries of "Shame! Shame...
...threatened to withdraw its 13 ministers from Mollet's coalition Cabinet unless he revised his Middle East and Algerian policies. The M.R.P. (Catholic) Party voted against Mollet in Parliament, forcing him to carry the issue (a minor budgetary item) on Communist votes. The meaning of these rebukes was plain to most Frenchmen: the politicians were turning their back on Mollet. This is the inevitable first step in an ancient French ritual: first declare your victim use (finished), put together a hypothetical majority to replace his government, then agree on a potential new Premier and the proper distribution of Cabinet...
...Washington audience that came to be enjoyably affronted by his lecture on "The Audience in Decadence," Composer Gian Carlo Menotti strummed a plain-spoken variation on one of his favorite themes. "It's not the taste of the modern audience which I think decadent." he declaimed, "but rather its character and individuality." The dogmatic tastes of today's audiences are rooted in their esthetic laziness. "I'd much rather sit at dinner next to one of those old ladies who tell you, 'Picasso is a fraud and Stravinsky a bore,' than beside one of those...
...answer to the charges, Sullivan said that he wished "to make it perfectly plain that no relatives of mine were involved in any way." He said he "voted as my conscience guided me, acountable to no group or clique...
...Sunday thousands of people went to the cemetery to look through rows of unidentified bodies lying in plain wooden coffins. They were searching for a missing brother or son among the 25,000 dead in Budapest's six weeks of revolt...