Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brother and me ... I will say it in exactly the terms I mean: I am very happy that Dick Nixon is my friend. I would be happy to be on any political ticket in which I was a candidate with him. Now if these words aren't plain, then it is merely because people can't understand the plain, unvarnished truth...
...Choice." With such encouragement, Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden rose in the House of Commons with newfound confidence to defend his government's action. He appeared in his most effective role-the put-upon man whose good intentions should be plain to all. He recalled how British troops at the end of World War II had fought and died to deliver Greece "from what I then believed, and still believe, was the certainty of Communist rule ... I was in Athens at the time." He accused Archbishop Makarios of negotiating in bad faith, of raising his demands, of refusing...
...time . . . The fellow you describe sounds a bit more like a character out of Mickey Spillane's "masterpieces." Somewhere beneath the literary imagination of your writer and above the "brogues gleaming richly on the broadloom" must exist a very competent individual composed of an uncommon amount of just plain Bill...
Missing here is the extravagant language and device of much of the playwright's work. In a single room with plain words the Tyrones struggle to explain and justify their lives, and their drama is not a drama of action, but of souls trapped and in conflict: unwilling to stay, unable to destroy the bonds of love that hold them or halt the movement of time which gives them no reprieve...
...murdered in the Tower-drowned, as a matter of gruesome legend, in a butt of malmsey wine. And while he waits for the aging king (Hardwicke) to die "and leave the world for me to bustle in," the "bottled spider" can teasingly tongue-tie the opposing faction ("Cannot a plain man live?") and make a lot of pious tut and pother ("I thank my God for my humility") at the deathbed of the king...