Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sept. 14]. With Naguib in Egypt, and Ike in America, one is moved to hope the usual moral decay following war is about over. After the long and dreary procession of aged, powerful murderers, sly and clever phonies, eggheads, screwball Messiahs, hotshots, white-haired, fast-buck boys and just plain internationally celebrated jerks-it is refreshing to realize that an oldfashioned, honest man is, at long last, news...
...Martin Levey, a specialist in the history of science, to figure out the materia medica which the ancient physician was prescribing. Most were dissolved in wine or beer, e.g.: "Grind to a powder pear-tree wood and the moon plant, then pour kushumma wine over it and let [plain] oil and hot cedar oil be spread over...
...record of the present Administration is too short to be anything like definitive. But the facts that are plain are also indicative of deeply held ideas of the widest meaning...
...year-old Lucky Strike Hit Parade, back for its fourth television season, gets its weekly list of the nation's seven most popular tunes in a plain envelope from a research firm (known only to a few insiders) whose methods are kept secret. When the plain envelope arrived for the season's first show a fortnight ago, anxious Lucky Strikers ripped it open, were relieved to find that the fast-rising Ray Anthony hit recording, Dragnet, was way down in 19th place...
...pressure on higher education to adjust itself to the prevailing social and political mores of the majority. Says Hutchins: "Everybody is supposed to be like everybody else. The doctrine of adaptation has won the day." All wrong, he says: "The history and tradition of our country make it plain that the essence of the American way of life is its hospitality to criticism, protest, unpopular opinions and independent thought...