Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guatemala Putsch. Attlee had other complaints. He wanted an immediate meeting with Malenkov on the hydrogen bomb-"It is no good putting this thing off." And he was incensed about Guatemala. "The fact is that this was a plain matter of aggression, and one cannot take one line on aggression in Asia and another line in Central America. I confess I was rather shocked at the joy and approval of the American Secretary of State at the success of this putsch . . . There was a principle involved, and that principle was the responsibility of the United Nations. I think...
Everybody in Brazil knows about Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello, or just plain "Chato." To some, Chato, a 63-year-old human tornado, is "a pirate from Paraiba" (his home state) ; to others he is the "only man in Brazil who gets things done." The boss of 28 newspapers, 19 radio stations, five magazines and two TV stations (TIME, June 8, 1953), Chato has channeled his efforts into every field, from organizing free milk stations to setting up Sao Paulo's first art museum...
...Question. With a model already built, Boeing has won itself a long head start on the rest of the industry in the jet transport race. The credit goes to Boeing's brilliant corps of engineers and to Bill Allen, the dry, deceptively plain lawyer who became Boeing's president (and custodian of the cactus) in 1945. Allen is the man who gave the final go-ahead for Boeing to spend $20 million on the 707, gambling that he could sell it to the Air Force and the airlines. With Air Force orders in the offing, Bill Allen...
Audiences are not likely to be convinced by the ending. As most of the actors draggle through their paces, it is plain that Novac and friends could easily outwit the lot of them...
...stories Paul tells best, as always, are of the japes and high jinks of Elliot Paul and his pals. To his tales of boozing, floozying and just plain horsing around, Paul contributes an uninhibited tongue, a gift for total and Technicolored recall, and a pleasing tendency to sound like a book-length monologue by W. C. Fields...