Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Girls. Clough's idea was that graft from gambling and prostitution would disappear if the mayor just made it quite plain that these activities did not need special "protection." Last week Galvestonians voted. By 6.406 to 5,649. it was a victory for Clough and cleanly liberalism...
...Keeping Article 35 in the treaty, he pointed out, would give the Soviet Union a permanent legal pretext for reviving its claims on Austria, should Moscow ever decide to welsh on its deal with Raab. Washington, London and Paris supported Thompson's stand. John Foster Dulles made it plain that he would not fly to Vienna to sign the Austrian treaty unless Ilyichev yielded. The result was a compromise: Article 35 was left in the treaty, but a note was attached, binding the Russians to the arrangements made with Raab in Moscow...
...should rule Britannia? Suave Sir Anthony Eden, 57, ensconced at last in No. 10 Downing Street after faithful years in the shade of the giant Churchill? Or Clement Attlee, 72, the plain and comfortable architect of the postwar Welfare State? The Conservatives, heirs to Pitt and Disraeli and Churchill, scions of the best schools and families, trustees of the government for the past 3½ years? Or ' the Laborites, offspring of the coalpits, workshops and the London School of Economics...
...that day is not yet here. As required by custom, Premier Scelba journeyed to the Quirinal Palace to present his formal resignation to the new President. Scelba made it plain that he regarded his resignation as only "a personal expression of dutiful deference." Gronchi took the hint, and formally rejected the resignation. Scelba, who has shown more agility in surviving in office than activity in governing, thus won another reprieve which should last at least until the Sicilian elections in early June...
Among musicals, the most winning were the first and last to open-The Boy Friend and Damn Yankees. Silk Stockings and Fanny were both lavish and hollow; more rewarding were House of Flowers, which bloomed brightly before it drooped, and Plain and Fancy, which had a nice Pennsylvania Dutch tang if not always enough musicomedy verve...