Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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America's strongest ally made plain last week that its own rearmament program is taking on the same new look that air-atomic power and the need for long-range economy combined to produce in the U.S. Two weeks after the Eisenhower Administration spelled out the new U.S. emphasis on "massive retaliatory power" instead of on "balanced forces," Britain's Minister of Defense implied that, in the years ahead, Britain too will key its defensive strategy more and more to "the new weapons [atom-carrying aircraft and guided missiles] which our scientists are set to develop...
...billion budget and its recognition of the importance of the U.S. economic system in the overall integrity of the free world's economy. "Is the budget deflationary or inflationary?" a reporter asked Budget Director Joseph Dodge during a budget briefing conference. Dodge's answer was plain: "It's neither. It's a stabilizing budget...
...necessity, the A.K.C. overlooked lesser breeds without the law: still top dog and alltime U.S. favorite (with a population of about 20 million) is the plain dog, the all-American mutt...
...made, "it is the stress on the capitalist spirit that has, I think, done the most harm." From being merely a phrase, "it has become an impersonal, superhuman force." The historians talk about "the inevitable decomposition of capitalist society." This has "introduced a new mysticism into the recounting of plain facts. Things happen because capitalism requires them to happen-even, it may be added, to an end not yet reached." Concludes Ashton: "I do not want to see history written as though its function were to simply exhibit the gradualness of inevitability ... I believe . . . that it is from the spontaneous...
...Balanchine style dispenses with elaborate sets. It concentrates on the rhythmic movement of trained bodies against plain backgrounds-whether the dancers are outfitted in feathers and fluffy skirts or simply in black bathing suits...