Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guadix (pop. 26,000). on the sun-hammered Spanish plain of Andalusia, is a poor town in a poor land. Along the dusty path to the cemetery of Guadix one day last week, the relations of Paula Pilar Magan carried her body in its rough coffin...
European governments have made their position plain. Said the British: "It is considered that any drastic curtailment of the present network would have a marked effect on the regularity, safety and economy of the transatlantic air operations...
Because of the confusion in the Government's budget methods, politicos are now able to talk about whichever budget suits their purpose, with the plain citizen little the wiser. With a single cash budget, everybody would be talking about the same thing...
...past two years, the seven-member committee has been under a non-CCA majority. A four-man block, consisting of Alfred Vellucci, John Cremes, Francis McCrehan and James Fitzgerald, has pretty much run the committee as it saw fit. The result has been some examples of plain political skullduggery. The most well known, of course, is last fall's notorious "Family Night," when these four men pushed through the appointments of eight people, half of whom were related to committee members. This move was made possible earlier in the year by the amendment of the committee rules to do away...
...Actor Zachary (Mildred Pierce) Scott returned from a Mexican fishing trip wearing a plain gold earring in his pierced left ear lobe. Said Mrs. Scott: "There has never been the slightest unpleasantness about it. Of course, it attracts attention, particularly from the ladies. Everybody seems to enjoy...