Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another Country Heard From. Flying on to Saigon, the Vice President, again to general public delight, reached for the hands of plain people, moved to the background while South Viet Nam marked the second anniversary of Ngo Dinh Diem's government. "You may be sure that you will have the warm support and admiration of the American people," Nixon said. "Although your country is divided, the militant march of Communism has been halted...
Next day, at the bargaining table, Konrad Adenauer slyly asked the Russians present how far a man could be trusted who matched a vodka toast with one of plain mineral water. Caught dead to rights, Russia's Khrushchev admitted his deception with a loud guffaw...
Cyprus is a sore subject involving three presumably friendly nations, and two of them have long since made their views noisily plain. Last week came word from the third nation: Turkey...
...good Latin-school education, plus a taste of university life, preferred the company of his sturdy Dutch countrymen. He once chose to paint his bride Saskia in the trappings of classic mythology, but the result (opposite), now owned by Leningrad's Hermitage, is basically a plain young Dutch girl, garlanded with field flowers and dressed in the rich, show-off satins and brocades that so delighted Rembrandt at Amsterdam's public auctions...
Navy enlisted man, dredges up a Neanderthal boatswain's mate named Farragut Jones who speaks basic English, all of it four-letter unprintables. Marblehead copes with a case of "ultimate fraternization" or "love-by that I mean plain, raw, unadulterated sex" between a yeoman and a nurse. He sits out an enlisted men's "mutiny" (they want 14 bottles of beer once a week, rather than two a day) and a correspondent's revolt (he wants his sheets changed every day), but almost founders under the first news of the atomic bomb ("That Air Force propaganda mill...