Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alarmed by reports that the Administration is yielding to pleas from Britain to ease East-West trade restrictions, the Senate's Permanent Investigations Subcommittee opened hearings on the current state of trade with the Communist bloc. In its line of questioning, the subcommittee made plain that its target will be Presidential Assistant Harold Stassen, who, as director of the Foreign Operations Administration, approved a general relaxation of controls...
...Tiny Cloete gives their favorite outdoor sport. The whole safari business, U.S.-born Author Cloete strongly suggests, is about as rugged nowadays as camping out with a Boy Scout troop. From the time the Cloetes outfit themselves in brand-new hunting togs in Nairobi, Tiny makes it amusingly plain that she is out to slay the myth of the strong, infallible White Hunter...
...poaching boat). The Russians advised Oslo that it was all "a regrettable misunderstanding," said there had been no premeditated poaching, and appealed to Norway to release the 15 Soviet boats. Relieved Norwegians stopped looking for deep political motives beneath the Red herring chase. "I think it's just plain fish-nothing else," said an official...
Historians, political scientists, and just plain politicians will probably be pondering the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy to prominence and power for a good many years to come. Even more spectacular, in a way, has been the Wisconsin senator's rapid descent into almost as much political obscurity as a United States senator can ever hope to attain. Harry Truman and Richard Nixon are not exactly noted for their harmony on most issues, but both have labeled McCarthy a political has-been in recent months and agree that his power has virtually evaporated. A.D.A. national chairman Joseph Rauh, Jr. tuned...
...plain as the fact of the Democratic split on civil rights is the fact that the Republicans will make the split a campaign issue. For three years, the Eisenhower Administration has concentrated on making its civil-rights record: Government lawyers argued for school desegregation ; segregation is being wiped out in the District of Columbia; long strides have been made toward ending discrimination by Government contractors, in the armed services and in veterans' hospitals...