Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tradition Upheld. Burnet Maybank could be understood only as a Southern aristocrat. Few of the breed survived politically the triple ordeals of Civil War, Reconstruction and the post-Reconstruction revolt of the South's small farmers and small townsmen-those variously described as the wool-hats, the plain people, the Snopeses; the hillbillies or the pine hill men. Unlike them, Maybank trusted government because he was born to it. Unlike them, he distrusted big government because he wanted nothing from it for himself or his group-other than participation in responsibility and power...
...moral of this is plain that adequate defensive strength and eternal vigilance is the price to be paid for coexistence . . . There is, I think, because of our growing collective strength, less danger at this time of a deliberate frontal aggression than two years ago. The Soviet leaders are realists. They know that such an attack would be met by ... atomic retaliation from the U.S., which would leave their great cities in ruins...
...Together. The peacemaker in the feud was Ancher Nelson, 49, a plain-spoken Minnesota Republican who was a farmer until he was appointed by President Eisenhower last year to replace onetime Agricultural Secretary Claude Wickard as boss of the Rural Electrification Administration. Shortly after he went into office, heads of the East Kentucky cooperative sought him out to plead their case in the long fight. The REA had authorized $28 million in loans to build a power plant at Ford and 798 miles of transmission line. But after giving the co-ops $15 million, the Government agency had stopped handing...
...fertile plain 50 miles south of Naples, where the river Sele winds lazily through vineyards and olive groves to the Tyrrhenian Sea. lies one of antiquity's great archaeological caches: the half-buried, 2,500-year-old city of Paestum. Paestum was founded by Greek traders around 600 B.C. and first named Posidonia, in honor of the sea god Poseidon. Across its bustling wharves merchants bought and sold the products of the civilized world: decorated vases from Sicily, bronze and iron weapons from Sardinia, colored glass from North Africa, cloth from Egypt and Greece. The city's middlemen...
...rather plain Venus in a gown, bending to teach her little boy how to nock an arrow. The playfulness of the piece in no way modifies its classic harmony...