Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council this year sponsored three spring vacation tours. For the first time, the tours produced a profit for the Council treasury, as opponents paid $20 each to debate Harvard on "any topic and any side" they chose. One trip went to Houston, Tex., a second to the plain states, and a third to Minnesota...
...dominant trend in psychiatry's new direction, it became plain, is the search for psychiatric answers and cures in the field of chemistry. A score of researchers reported progress with ataraxic or tranquilizing drugs (TIME, March...
...Syria, Israel's northern and eastern neighbors insisted on qualifying their armistice pledge: if Israel carries out its oft-announced intention of diverting Jordan River waters to irrigate its coastal plain, they will go to war. In talking the three Arab states into joining in a flat commitment to restore the 1949 armistice conditions, Hammarskjold won timely help from Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, who, though he did not mention the Jordan waters, told the 24th Zionist Congress in Jerusalem last week: "Israel will not precipitate any major crisis...
...year-old boy. Leonard Ross, 4 ft. 4 in. tall, of Tujunga, Cal., started reading books about far-off Wall Street at the age of seven, when his father, a certified public accountant, roused his interest in the market. Once Lenny had acquired some learning, it was plain that the way to make a killing without risking the capital he didn't have was to become a contestant on a television quiz show...
...born South African Author Schiemer, now 23, was a fledgling reporter of the Cairo scene for a year beginning in March 1953. He met Nasser and Naguib, original front man of the coup, and made friends with members of the Arab League, the Moslem Brotherhood, Egyptian army officers and plain people of the poor native quarter where he lived. With its probing look at Egyptian attitudes, motivations and customs, the book is written more between the headlines than on top of them...