Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western dress is often hurrying home for a quiet lesson in flower arranging. The man who elbows his way into an elevator jammed with strangers will a moment later bow two or three ceremonial bows to an acquaintance. The Western-tailored businessman returns at night to a severely plain house of wood and paper. At the entrance he takes off his shoes, steps onto a straw mat (tatami), changes into a kimono and walks straight out of the Western world until tomorrow morning. The central room, except for mats and sliding panels and perhaps a low table, is without furniture...
Inspecting imported wheat last week, the manager of a Brazilian flour mill caught a glint of metal, plucked out the hammer-and-sickle button of a Russian army uniform. How the button got mixed with the grain, no one knew, but it provided a brassy accent for a plain fact: Latin American trade with Iron Curtain countries is rising. Items...
...must test oneself against danger in preparation for when it comes," says President Pérez Jiménez. Setting a killing pace for the official sedans that followed, he swerved along the northward-twisting highway toward the Caribbean. At the coast he turned west again over the low plain to Barquisimeto, speeding through the clear dusk that silhouetted wide-spreading samán trees blackly against an orchid...
...morale or progress of the country. In a word, the press is censored. Very mildly indeed, but censored." In Pérez Jiménez' view, "there must be a leader who shows the way without being perturbed by the necessity of winning demagogic popularity." He makes it plain that for the present he has no intention of trying to become a popular politician, or of relaxing the severity of his regime...
...totaled more than $30 million. Only recently did it make a halfhearted attempt to get into synthetics; its northern plants are antiquated and its invasion of the South consisted of buying an old tobacco warehouse and an ancient mill. But Royal Little's reasons for wanting American were plain: it has $28 million in working capital and a $30 million tax loss that can be used to offset future profits. Said a Little man last week: "Textron has the management, Robbins has the plants, American Woolen has the money...