Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advertising space, literary space and screen space is taken by the Miss Lollobrigidas who can, as she boasts, break up families. It must be terribly frustrating for men in these times. By comparison with all this half-clad beauty (with measurements to substantiate), ordinary wives, children, and plain-little-girls-next-door aren't sexy...
...changed (though unrepentant) man or was simply proclaiming a new tactical retreat of the party was hard to determine from his speech. The one-time Huk leader never once referred to his surrender (TIME, May 24), instead preferred to say that he "came down" to Manila. It was plain that the Magsaysay government was happy to have him in its hands instead of on its hands : the campaign against the Huk hideouts is going well, but is also costly...
...temples. His walk more than ever resembles that of a duck. But the huge crowds who gathered to greet him with paper flags, banzais and sometimes tears in Hokkaido were not the awed, head-lowering crowds before the war. They offered Hirohito something they had never offered his ancestors-plain affection...
...Sapporo, the Emperor watched a schoolroom full of crippled children struggling painfully to their feet to greet him, and he bowed deeply to the children before they could bow to him. At Kushiro he ate the plain buckwheat noodles and mackerel of the local villagers. When his glasses needed wiping, he handed his straw hat to his Empress, who held it obediently...
...Cult of the Gun." U Nu will argue Marxism with Communists over a pot of plain tea, but he will not let them undermine free Burma with a gun. As Prime Minister, he goes to extraordinary lengths to ensure that his people understand this, the difference he considers vital. "For 2,000 years." he cried, "we in Burma had the tradition that he who can kill a King becomes a King . . . The conflict is not between government and rebels, but a conflict between . . . the rights of the people and the cult of the gun." He tells his people: "Beware...