Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...March 19 issue, you made it quite plain that Kefauver's campaign in Minnesota never got off the ground and Adlai was flying high. Results indicate the reverse situation existed. Hasn't TIME learned any lessons in observing political campaigns since...
...keep his empire expanding, McMahon during the last two years has spent almost as much time in Texas, Wall Street and Washington as in Calgary. No man to overlook a good investment wherever he is, McMahon helped back two Broadway musicals (Pajama Game, Plain and Fancy), turned a fat profit on both. Last week Millionaire McMahon took time off to be married to onetime Hearst Columnist Betty Betz, 36 (each for the second time), whom he met two years...
...great books. The Great Dialogues of Plato have now been made available to U.S. readers in a paperback edition, tailored neatly for the pocket as well as the pocketbook. Classicists may continue to give their allegiance to the translation of Greek Scholar Benjamin Jowett (1817-93), but the plain reader will find that Rouse has given him a great legacy of philosophy in language that hews to simple clarity...
After the great defeat in Minnesota, Adlai Stevenson said he was "just plain mad"; before last week was out, it became increasingly doubtful that Stevenson could be either plain or mad. Against the wishes of some of his California campaign chiefs, he canceled his planned vacation in the South and flew west to head off Estes Kefauver. By the time he landed in Los Angeles, just 18 hours after Kefauver had finished a six-day swing down the state, Adlai was talking his version of Estes' language. "I'm an underdog," he said, "who has come back...
...heaven should be slammed in the faces of such innocent wrongdoers. When he died, beloved even by the anticlericals, the cure was succeeded by a young ascetic who tried the fire-and-brimstone approach. He did not last long. Letters to the archbishop signed by worthy Clochemerlins made it plain that if they had to choose between the church and their frailties, the church would go empty. The archbishop saw the point at once, and sent them a new cure who could put away wine with the best of them. It is true that when Tistin, the town...