Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic reaction to the new offensive was keen and swift. Democrats found their handiest targets in Ezra Benson, whose plain, logical arguments won surprising victories for his program both in the House and in the Senate (see THE CONGRESS). The Democratic high command built up steam for a big meeting at Sioux Falls. S.Dak., late this month, where Adlai Stevenson and other top Democrats will commiserate with the farmers. The Democratic Digest, which sets the party line, slapped Benson's picture on the cover of its September issue, along with the dubious headline: FARMERS GET THE BUSINESS...
...decide whether the Senate should censure McCarthy met under the chairmanship of Utah's Senator Arthur Vivian Watkins. Before it. or at least available to it, was more evidence about McCarthy than any man could read in a lifetime. Fair or foul, McCarthy's record is written plain in transcript upon tons of transcript. What might be painfully difficult is the judgment to be passed on that record. Is his conduct unbecoming a Senator...
Next day, Adenauer's government offered 500,000 marks ($119,000) to anyone who would come forward in the next three months with facts that would ex plain the mystery of Dr. John's strange exit. But though West German and U.S. intelligence officers still profess to be in doubt whether Dr. John defected or was lured into a trap, German public opinion had hardened into the almost unanimous belief that he defected...
...battered survivors of the anti-Communist Army of Liberation like P.W.s right through the capital's Sixth Avenue to a train that carried them back to their old headquarters near the Honduran border. That night official communiques saluted "the glorious gesture of the gentlemen cadets," and it was plain that the army thought...
...quintuplets did live. From tiny infants, fed with eyedroppers and enriched almost from birth with the dollars of the curious and the exploiters (total: about $1,250,000), they grew into carefully chaperoned girlhood, then into shy, sequestered, plain-looking young women. This year on their 20th birthday, Emilie, Annette and Cecile were taking domestic science studies; Yvonne was studying fine arts in Montreal; Marie was about to leave a Quebec convent where she had decided against becoming...