Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time for Obits. From far and wide next day the tributes poured in. Great contemporaries, heads of state, ancient enemies, old colleagues, distant admirers, journalists, historians, soldiers, statesmen and plain men in the street took to their typewriters, their telegraph pads, their microphones, their notepaper or simply the local pub to heap praise on a career that has seldom been matched...
Last week from all over India the Lohars converged on Chitor. In the great plain below the landship fortress, their 4,000 bullock carts were drawn up in huge circles like the covered wagons of American pioneers. Over their wagons flew tattered Rajput sun flags (symbolizing the god Rama) and banners reading, "Hail Emperor Nehru." Few of the tribesmen had ever heard of Prime Minister Nehru, but they knew that a great badshah (ruler) had offered to succor them at Chitor, a place they had always avoided in their wanderings...
...spent the week racing back and forth through history like a time machine. Omnibus set out heroically to recreate Homer's Iliad, and for 90 minutes the poetry was mostly drowned out in a clatter of tin swords on tin shields as Trojan and Greek struggled on the plain and seashore of Troy. The Trojans lost the war, but they won what few acting honors were available: Frederick Rolf displayed both majesty and grief as King Priam, while Michael Higgins' doomed Hector seemed far more a man and soldier than his rival, Achilles...
...upsurge in business has put a rosy glow on first-quarter corporate earnings. This was plain last week as some early-bird companies reported. General Tire & Rubber Co. announced that in its first fiscal quarter (from Dec. 1, 1954 through Feb. 28) it made a profit of $2,236,310 on sales of $63,574,233 v. a profit of $1,851,515 on sales of $44,130,274 a year ago. Pittsburgh Coke & Chemical Co., operating at about 85% of capacity in the first quarter v. 50% a year ago, said that its earnings are "much better" than...
...actors, under shrewd direction, prove almost everywhere as good as their material. Joe Mantell is the living image of a lamppost primitive. Betsy Blair is fully convincing as the sort of plain Jane whose homeliness is only skin-deep. Ernest Borgnine as Marty lives up to all the promise he showed as the sadist in From Here to Eternity, and at the same time brilliantly shatters the type-cast he molded for himself in that picture. His Marty is fully what the author intended him to be-a Hamlet of butchers...