Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must govern, it would have had the grateful and dedicated support of all but a tiny and deluded minority of our people. Yet the Administration appears to be helpless ... It seems to me that this [Secretary of the Army] Stevens incident illustrates what preceding events have made memorably plain: a political party divided against itself-half McCarthy and half Eisenhower-cannot produce national unity; cannot govern with confidence and purpose. And it demonstrates that, so long as it attempts to share power with its enemies, it will inexorably lose power to them...
...Senator has made it plain that if he is to join with the President, the President must do exactly what he (McCarthy) says," Flanders continued. "This is of course an impossible condition," he declared...
Good Communists have long frowned on the capitalistic, zoot-suited squares who resist the muscular dedication of their People's Republics. They call them variously hooligans, Bikinists (after the big bomb and the little bathing suits) or just plain Schlurfs. Last week a 25-year-old, gun-toting Schlurf named Jan Brzoza was up before a Polish court, charged, along with three accomplices, with robbery. The court decided to make an example of Brzoza and sentenced him to death on the simple grounds that if a Bikinist is not already a traitor he will probably be one before long...
There Is No Defense. Such plain speak ing in Britain is most unfashionable. It represents a considerable victory, won in disregard of popular British opinion, for a group of professional strategists led by a famed airman: Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Cotesworth Slessor...
There are still cliques-of the literary, the fashionable, and the wonks (latterday meatballs). But there is also an amorphous ruck of plain Eugene Gants, one of whom Thomas Wolfe described as "prowling the stacks of the library at night, pulling books out of a thousand shelves and reading in them like a madman." A student can go through four years at Harvard and never say a word to the man who lives in the room next door. He may never go to a football game, never see the medical school, never sign a petition nor participate in a riot...