Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...These reports are plain exaggerations. You'd think we were operating a league where a player can't even say hello to his coach," he said...
...timing was all-important. For many months the U.S. had been resisting the idea of a "conference at the summit." Those months were the critical period when the issue of rearming West Germany hung in the balance. The U.S.S.R. made it menacingly plain that it would do everything it could and dared to prevent German rearmament. The Soviet attitude stirred neutralists and others to support a "conference at the summit" as a substitute for German rearmament. This sentiment was so strong that even Sir Winston Churchill repeatedly urged such a conference, if only to prove that Russian peace talk...
Livid with rage, his eyes bulging behind their glasses, sweat gleaming on his bald pate. Léon Martinaud-Déplat took the rostrum to answer. "The passion which has been expressed here, the hate on certain faces," he cried, "is plain for all to see." He sneered at the "new left," which. he said, goes from sectarianism to collectivism, with a whiff of Gaullism. Some of his speech could hardly be heard over a chorus of whistles, groans, boos and shouts of "Resign, resign...
...years. When they get around to Formosa, they urge Chiang Kai-shek to pull his troops off Quemoy and Matsu, and say: "This could lead to the reconsideration at an appropriate moment both of Chinese representation in the United Nations and the future of Formosa." That is a plain promise that if the Tories win this election they will press for a sellout of Chiang and Formosa...
...husbands. When she married the popular but lightweight British Playwright J. Hartley Manners, it was both a real love match and a tacit contract to become his star for life. Together they became rich and famous (Peg 0' My Heart, One Night in Rome), but it was plain that a great talent was being spent on thin theater. Laurette did not seem much to care. Peg 0' My Heart had made her a favorite of New York and London; the movie made her a household heroine to the nation. Hollywood also introduced her to Movie Idol John Gilbert...