Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could hold his own in technical arguments, but his greatest talent was his ability to put a technical point in broad, political perspective and reduce it to plain English. An associate recalls: "He could talk economics in kindergarten terms." This was important because his boss as Secretary of the Treasury was Henry Morgenthau Jr., who had every reason to appreciate a man who could talk in kindergarten terms...
...Small, Plain Woman. "If you were [my] daughter," one of Henry's bullies once bellowed at Mary, "I would beat you to death and knock your head against the wall till it was as soft as a baked apple." Before long it looked .as though Henry, regardless of Spain's warnings, intended just some such fate for Mary. Terrified, she begged the Spanish ambassador for advice, and he instructed her to save her head-if necessary by acknowledging her father as "Supreme Head'' of the Church of England and her mother's marriage as "incestuous...
...game of Anglo-Spanish diplomacy. When she mounted the throne at 37, she was a "small and thin.'' unattractive woman, old for her age and with "a loud and deep voice" in which she had "never learnt to lie," but only, as she said, "to be plain with you." She had one fixed intention: to restore the old religion. But she swore "graciously not to compel or constrain" the consciences of those who had accepted...
...which makes a good deal of sense. It is the belief that the very act of segregation vitiates the superficial equality of facilities. Despite the talk about equality, a Negro child is treated as unequal by being told that he cannot attend school with white children, for the plain implication is that he is not good enough to go to school with them. If he is so marked, then he is not being treated equally under...
...notion that came to life with the death of Joseph Stalin was itself laid to rest last week. Stalin's successors made plain, so that even the most credulous could see, that they have no desire to negotiate a letup in the cold...