Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were true that "only one piece of legislation bore Voorhis' name," that would be no reflection whatever on the worth of a man's service in Congress . . . Most bills bear the names of committee chairmen. The point, therefore, is an altogether technical one. But the plain fact is that, for example, bills for the benefit of veterans did bear my name as author ... I was the original author of the legislation that established "Employ the Physically Handicapped Week" . . . The so-called "rabbit bill" was of benefit, it is true, only to a comparatively few small farmers...
...American and British pledges did not materially add to what the two governments had long made plain they intended to do. But the British pledge of actual participation in the European Army's working was designed to reassure the many Frenchmen who fear that otherwise, the efficient Germans will use it to dominate the French. And the U.S. promise was explicit enough to combat the fear of U.S. withdrawal, which has been strong in France ever since Defense Secretary Charles Wilson's too-casual talk about pulling U.S. ground forces away from the Continent (TIME...
...grumblings and rumblings in French political circles made plain, however, that the week's maneuverings had pushed France's day of decision closer. "It would have been impossible for me to go to Geneva . . . without at least a decision as to the date," said Bidault. "If the outcome had been different, I should have preferred to resign...
...sign that Gregory's concoction has done cancer patients any more good than plain water-though the commission found 82 death certificates signed by Gregory and his assistants listing cancer as the cause of death...
...Galleries this week, struck at least one critic as coming "perilously close to academicism." But Paul Cézanne, who was no academician, would have approved Koerner's Mother and Child (opposite) for its delicate interplay of geometric planes. The master might even have envied its draftsmanship. The plain young mother and her beefy, carrot-topped boy are treated as coolly as a still life, yet his energy and her weariness are perfectly conveyed...