Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most violent opinion was expressed by John William Marchetti, who resigned last May as electronics director of the Cambridge Air Force Research Center after a row with a new commanding officer. Said Marchetti: "We got decisions that were stupid, just plain stupid, and some that were intolerable." He did not blame the military men for all the friction. "It is one clique pitted against another ... 'It is said of a well-known Air Force research and development center that at the officers' club the relative ranks are officers, enlisted men, dogs and civilians...
...Keokuk, Iowa. Her mother had miscalculated and had confidently gone to the opera that evening. Elsa's birth cry rose mightily in the middle of a road company mezzo's big aria and overpowered an ill-fated Mignon. After that impressive debut, Elsa grew up poor, plain and plump. Her father was an insurance man and part-time drama critic. But she could play the piano and, to hear her tell it, attracted people "by the gaiety I radiate as naturally as I breathe." R.S.V.P. is Elsa's amusing, gossipy story of how the poor, plain, plump...
...official circles, at least, they are beginning to use "to gowerize." Its source is leathery Sir Ernest Cowers, 74, a retired civil servant who has been waging a relentless war against the turgid prose called officialese. Last week, from Sir Ernest's new book, The Complete Plain Words (Her Majesty's Stationery Office), thousands of readers both in and out of the service were learning what gowerizing is all about-"to say what you mean in simple words instead of words that mean nothing...
...nation's secret files may be successfully barred to Communists, and sometimes to just plain newsmen, but they are wide open to television writers. TVmen boast that they have their grubby fingers in the file cabinets of the Treasury Department (Treasury Men in Action), the Bureau of the Chief Inspector, Post Office Department (The Mail Story), the Los Angeles Police Department (Dragnet), the FBI (I Led Three Lives), the National Legal Aid Association (Justice). the Los Angeles County Medical Association (Medic), and the San Francisco Police (The Lineup'). Public Defender ranges from coast to coast in grabbing "actual...
...still seem to stem from different conceptions of what, exactly, the Arboretum is. The arguments in Harvard's favor seem to view the trust as a fund with a set of purposes attached, while the petitioners focus on what is going to happen to those 265 acres in Jamaica Plain. The Association sees only the collapse of an identifiable unit, the disappearance of a unique institution among the folds of the Harvard empire. It is on his point that the question of whom is benefit ted seems to turn. And the petitioners must impress the court with their view...