Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has kept his people's eyes turned firmly westward. He sold them on the theory that Germany's future depends on the building of a strong Western Europe. "Europe is coming," Der Alte promised week after week. Last week, as it became increasingly plain that Europe is not coming, Adenauer faced outspoken rumbles among his own supporters...
Growing Mountain. Last week it was plain that the wheat problem will get worse before it gets better. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson predicted that this year's U.S. crop will total 999,561,000 bushels, almost 100 million more than predicted only two months ago. While 15% below last year, because of acreage reductions, the harvest would still be 140 million bushels more than the U.S. expects to need for domestic and foreign markets. Barring some unforeseen new demand, the record U.S. wheat stocks of 875 million bushels (previous record: 1942's 631 million) will...
...long stove pipe") and bursts of gassy lamentation ("About those around me-hardly any have ever given me anything I could use as a human being -love, understanding or comfort"). A Child of the Century drives home the lesson that words and phrases are best kept short and plain-a fact Hecht might have learned from the story he tells about Author Michael (The Green Hat} Arlen, who "affected a shepherd's crook for evening wear." Once at dinner a lady novelist told him: "You look almost like a woman." Arlen studied her for a moment and answered...
...centuries before and after King Xerxes camped there with his Persians waiting to do battle at Thermopylae in 480 B.C., the plain of Anthele lay bleached and barren. No trees grew to shade its parched acres from the relentless Grecian sun; no water flowed over the bank of the winding Sperchios River to wash them clear of salt and alkali. For generations, no local farmer even bothered to put his plow to the 9,000 useless acres of the plain, and even those who worked the stingy lands on its edge were forced to content themselves with only the scantiest...
...February day in 1949, however, an elderly American agricultural expert named Walter Eugene Packard drove out to Anthele from Athens. As plainly and unmistakably American as the prostyle of a Midwestern bank, he joined the villagers for coffee and sweets at the local inn and promptly got down to business. "Some of us," he told his listeners, "think you can grow things on this land of yours. Rice, for instance." Torn between skepticism and wonder, the farmers of Anthele listened respectfully as Packard went on to outline a plan whereby U.S. money and Greek labor might be combined to test...