Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a few more minutes in the committee's chilly atmosphere, Stassen abruptly stood up, packed up his charts and went back downtown to his office. If he had stuck to the plain fact that the agreement to relax controls on East-West trade was a necessary concession to the British and French, who are being hard-pressed by the U.S. diplomacy on the political front, the Senators would probably have understood him better. But when he implied that the new trade might soften the heart of Communism-i.e., that Russia makes guns only because...
...postwar comeback. For the second time in 13 weeks, the Comet fleet was grounded. Civil Aviation Minister Lennox-Boyd announced that the Comets' certificate of airworthiness would be withdrawn "pending further detailed investigations." No one in Britain would admit it. but the writing on the wall was plain. Comet I, after flying 55,000 passengers more than 7,000,000 miles, was unlikely to carry passengers again...
...official U.S. attitudes. The statement came from Henry A. Byroade, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs, and it had the prior approval of John Foster Dulles. Speaking in Ohio, before members of the Dayton World Affairs Council, West Pointer Byroade had some plain-spoken advice on the Middle East for both sides...
William H. Allen of Jamaica Plain, Mass.; James A. Bailey 2d of Wellesley Hills, Mass.; Edward L. Burlingame of New Canaan, Conn.; Thomas F. Crowley of Belmont, Mass.; John S. Hamlen of Boston, Mass.; Myron T. Herrick of Dark Harbor, Me.; Robert S. Hoffman 3d of Wellesley Hills, Mass.; Theodore C. Hollander of South Hamilton, Mass.; David U. Holmes of Westwood, Mass; David B. Loring of Hamden, Conn.; John L. Newell of Brookline, Mass.; Frederick S. Nicholas Jr. (Capt.) of Malvern, Pa.; Charles A. Papalia of Watertown, Mass.; Charles Steedman of Providence, R. I.; Thomas H. Walsh Jr. of Wellesley...
...Plain lithium hydride, which can be bought on the open market, is probably not the kind that the bomb-builders use. Natural lithium contains two isotopes, L17 and L16, which behave differently in a fusion reaction. Most guessers believe that L16 is the preferred isotope. The hydrogen in the compound is probably deuterium (H²). So the compound may be described as "lithium-six deuteride...