Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nasser had already pledged his country's cotton crop for years to come to pay for his Communist arms. Moscow last week made it plain that it was not willing to finance the dam, even though it had let Nasser blackmail the West with the threat of a Soviet counteroffer. Now Nasser stood exposed. Even his brother Arabs privately agreed that he had asked for the trouble he was in. All this was vexing to 38-year-old Gamal Abdel Nasser, who is a proud...
...over the past 17 years, Britons have been singularly unmoved by Sir Anthony's outburst. They can see nothing so dramatic and decisive as a new Battle of Britain-only a new declaration of siege. They are enjoying summer holidays, TV sets and a respite from shortages. And plain Britons, listening in puzzlement to Eden's suddenly urgent cries, may search the acts of his government in vain for signs of a bold lead in preparing for battle...
...week's junkets underlined what the U.S. hopes will be the historic meaning of Panama: more mutual trade and aid among the Latin American nations, with a corresponding playing down of continuing economic dependence on the U.S. Old rivalries, bad transportation and plain shortage of capital in most countries plainly stand in the way. But the unexpected show of presidential friendship was a hopeful sign on the first week after the meeting that the historic divisions of Latin America may be breaking down...
...intravenous feeding in hospitals, usually gathers dust on druggists' shelves. The Liggett chain (118 stores) may sell 400 Ibs. a month; after the LHJ fable, sales zoomed to 800 Ibs. a day. Other chains across the country reported the same sort of boom. And because the plain formula tastes so flat, there was a corresponding boost in sales of peppermint, vanilla and coffee and other flavoring extracts...
After the Bible. Some of Butler's saints have been eliminated by modern scholarship, shortage of facts or plain obscurity (there is no all-inclusive calendar of Catholic saints). Notable among the additions is St. John Cassian. 5th century patriarch of monasticism, whose work was rated by St. Benedict as, after the Bible, the most suitable reading for Benedictine monks. Butler banned him. presumably for his leanings toward semi-Pelagianism (heretical insistence on man's perfectibility without God's help), but Attwater prefers to call him "anti-Augustinian." Other newcomers are those canonized since Butler...