Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Micol Fontana (who was commissioned to create the wedding gown because it was a Fontana dress Margaret was wearing one evening last November when she first met Daniel). The Rev. Patric Hutton, 30-year-old rector of the church, read the marriage ceremony, watched as Daniel slipped a plain gold band on his bride's finger...
...fear of Stalin that made Khrushchev accept the job of secretary of the Moscow region party committee in 1949. Three years later, at the 19th party congress, it was plain gratitude which made him say, "Our beloved Stalin, great leader and genius-like teacher," as he accepted one of the ten key secretaryships of the new party Central Committee. The truth was Stalin liked and encouraged Khrushchev. Immediately after the dictator's death Khrushchev had inherited enough of Stalin's power within the party structure to take over the party secretaryship, Stalin's old job, from Georgy...
When A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, whose plain talk is sometimes too plain, bluntly tagged India's Prime Minister Nehru as a Communist ally (TIME, Dec. 26), U.S. Ambassador to India John Sherman Cooper sent out a hasty S O S for Meany's more diplomatic vice president, the Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, to come soothe the anger of India's trade unionists. Reuther returned to the U.S. last week after a shining fortnight's good-will mission. He had sat in as a drummer at a village folk dance, got dolled...
...Israel verged on war across the tensest frontier in the world. Nine Jews were killed, more than 50 were injured in some 30 reported attacks. The raiders, mainly Palestinian Arabs recruited from the Gaza border camps (and not technically in the Egyptian army), struck hardest in the coastal plain, always at night. No citizen of the tiny republic was safe from the "Nights of Horror," as Cairo's newspaper Al Akh-bar jubilantly headlined the raids, and never was a U.S. diplomat's remark more terrifyingly apt: "Every Israeli sleeps within 20 miles of an Arab knife...
...fantastic what a cheap price is put on 'education' at this school. We are all just plain stupid, spending years preparing for education in specified fields when a man with nothing but brawn and no brains can get $17,000 a year for chasing a bunch of ninnies around a field with a ball. Every time I think of it, I get so outraged I could spit...