Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kefauver's; Kefauver himself is almost inarticulate in expressing his policies. When asked precisely what he stands for, he is likely to hesitate, ponder painfully, and finally come up with some such phrase as "a place in the sun for the farmer," or "the best interests of the plain people of this nation," or "an even break for the average man." But the Midwestern farmer cares much less about what Kefauver stands for than about how he looks and acts...
...because of his ability-and Stevenson's comparative inability-to project a just-plain-folks personality that Kefauver, the professionally common man, is of uncommon value to the Democratic ticket. He stands high with labor (A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther was one of his boosters for the vice-presidential nomination). Two presidential primaries showed clearly how the New Hampshire housewife felt about Kefauver. Professional Southern politicians dislike him intensely-but even they admit that Southern voters by the thousands are likely to fall hard for Kefauver's poor-mouthed Southern drawl...
...airborne action should a lunge toward Suez or Cairo be ordered. The British maintained a tight security shutdown, and it was impossible for correspondents to judge the degree of activity at Akrotiri air base. Middle East headquarters of the Royal Air Force, which sits on an arid, dusty plain on the southernmost peninsula of the island. But at the east coast port of Famagusta ten ships were quietly and efficiently unloaded, their cargoes quickly moved out of the dock area. The French, less security-minded than the British, let it be known that a fleet of eight transports, with...
...oilmen, once they are in production, must pay at least half of their profits to the Venezuelan treasury. But to get concessions in the first place, they must make bids, offering what the law calls "special advantages" to Venezuela, e.g., guarantees to refine more oil in Venezuela, bonuses of plain cash. The bidders, for the most part big foreign oil companies, have generally chosen to pay cash. The government has recently collected, or is about to collect, a cool $310 million for 720,000 acres of concessions. Item...
...Astronomers have devised new tricks and instruments. Much of their equipment has improved materially in the last few years. Photographic films are faster and finer-grained. They may have improved enough to get a photographic record of the fleeting Martian details that visual observers believe they have seen. If plain telescopic photography does not succeed, one of the several electronic devices that amplify light may do the trick...