Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been brainwashed by the Arabs. As for instance, "Israel's armed forces carried out a smashing blow in the Gaza Strip in reprisal for acts of individual Palestinian refugees who had crossed the border to their former holdings." Are you naive or are you a plain Israeliphobe? Mr. Editor, I never subscribe to a paper that lets Walter Winchell or Joe McCarthy air their views, and this goes for your Middle East correspondents. Louis B. BALL Long Beach, Calif...
...three years of publication, the Democratic Digest has served mostly as a canape tray laden with fancily garnished political tidbits. Adlai Stevenson's egghead followers thought it had the flavor of real caviar. But most ordinary folks considered it just plain fish eggs-and rancid at that. Result: the Digest lost $200,000 in struggling toward a monthly circulation...
Only in the Middle East did the Russians' bewildering profusion of moves seem astute and controlled. The Kremlin began the week counting out loud the number of Russian "volunteers" begging to set off for Egypt. At midweek, the counting abruptly ceased on receiving plain warning from President Eisenhower that the U.S. would oppose Russian intervention in the Middle East. Next day Premier Bulganin piously denied to France and Britain that Russia "follows in the Near East some sort of special aims directed against the interests of the Western powers." Thus, without expending a single Russian soldier, Russia got credit...
...Montana's Alfred Bertram ("Bud") Guthrie Jr. took the opening of the West away from the cliché specialists with The Big Sky, a knowing, realistic book about the early traders, trappers and scouts that was as unashamedly rich in poetic evocation as it was in gritty plain talk. In 1949 came The Way West, a sober but richly authentic account of the great migration by wagon to the Pacific coast. Guthrie's new book, These Thousand Hills, again justifies the literary claim he has staked out in that vast country, but it also shows that when...
...tethered to that stock character of all cowtowns, a prostitute with a heart of gold. Gallic is slim and blonde and high-breasted, and it was love for both from the first time he paid cash on the barrelhead. When Lat becomes a big man, it is plain that Gallic will not do. But the educated niece of a prosperous storekeeper will and does, at the cost of Callie's broken heart...