Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Assembly had directed Hammarskjold only to seek release of the prisoners, but, he made plain, the discussions covered much more ground: such issues as the 35 Chinese students held in the U.S., Chou's demand to enter the U.N., and many other "grudges, worries, concerns." "No deals of any kind" were suggested, he said, but "there is a very definite link between" the prisoners and the Red objectives...
...days in a furnished room in Rome seem well behind. It is typical of Author Moravia that conjugal hell lies just a step away from marital contentment. For at about this point Emilia takes to sleeping alone, begins to be less indifferent to the vulgar producer, and makes it plain that Riccardo bores her. The rest of A Ghost is a battle between the sexes fought out on the battlegrounds of character and personality, areas in which Moravia is one of the world's living masters...
Washington sources Tuesday called security the formal reason for the step, but they made it plain that the real reason was retaliation for similar travel restrictions placed on American citizens in Russia...
...plain civilian suit. Tito addressed India's combined Houses of Parliament. "Admissions by the present Soviet leaders that Yugoslavia was wrongly treated," he said, had convinced him that "there has been a change in Russia . . . Tensions have now subsided." Tito tenaciously discoursed upon Yugoslavia's Socialism in heavily accented English, but when he left the subject of Asia behind, the Indian M.P.s lost interest and began chattering to one another. Tito also talked alone with Nehru for ten hours. The gist of his message: Malenkov is less ambitious than Stalin and lacks Stalin's iron will; Malenkov...
Deck the Halls. In Milwaukee, after they had been consulted by an insurance representative for a local department store, University of Wisconsin botanists issued a general warning to several hundred anonymous purchasers of floral bouquets that, unknown to the store, the "autumn berries" in each bouquet were plain sprigs of poison...