Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dance floor of the Boulevard Room in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel, workmen had put together the setting of a business office. There was a mahogany desk equipped with an "in" box, a telephone and a lectern, with an American flag at one side and a plain grey curtain in the background concealing the nightclub decor. Gathered in the room, on the appointed day, were some 100 reporters and a few politicians...
...atomic weapons. The dictionaries of all languages have been combed for superlatives to describe the devastation that would ensue from atomic war. Could an observer from Russia or Burma or Bolivia take home a description more impressive than Commissioner Murray's own? In the U.S., physicists, generals and plain men, approaching the new weapons from different angles and at different levels of technical knowledge, all came to conclusions quite similar to Murray's own: that these weapons represent a danger of unprecedented magnitude to the survival of mankind -and that until an effective system of international control...
...Minister Nehru to warn: "I have myself been repeatedly hurt a bit by the throwing of flowers. I should therefore particularly request that no flowers, garlands or bouquets be thrown at our guests." The guests-to-be themselves also issued an advance request -they wanted to be addressed as "plain Mister," would be "satisfied with common dishes," and wanted to be treated exactly equal...
CICCU believers deny that they are literalists or anything but plain Christians. "We simply uphold the fundamental, orthodox beliefs of the church. In short, we believe in the Apostles' Creed. We do not prefix it with a 'maybe'" says CICCU's president...
Hasty-Pudding Lady. Just how finicky, the 22-year-old Santayana makes plain in the collection's very first letter, as he announces to a friend that he is starting out "avowedly with no other purpose but that of living in order to observe life." Perhaps this spectator role might not have appealed to Santayana so much if a New England chill had not entered his Latin blood when he was transplanted as a boy of eight from his home in Avila, Spain to Boston, Mass. Boston seared his youthful psyche with the indelible brand of the outcast...