Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is a presumption in favor of obeying law. Strongly opposed as I am to McCarthyism, I am compelled to support the legitimacy of congressional investigations. I think the Jenner and Velde committees are doing rather more harm than good by their present inquiries, but the plain truth is that they are not as yet conducting a general fishing expedition into ideas and beliefs. They are questioning comparatively few teachers about their primary loyalties...
...laid down on the encircled Wehrmacht armies at Stalingrad was written by Ulbricht and delivered in his guttural German over front-line loudspeakers. In Moscow, where he rubbed elbows with Red princelings from all over Europe, e.g., Tito, Togliatti, Thorez, he shared quarters in the Lux Hotel with a plain, buxom German émigree named Lotte Kühn (years later, in 1951, he made Lotte an honest woman...
...there were, of course, the police-the Volkspolizei, or People's Police. Some 90,000 East Germans were recruited into the Blue Police for plain cop duty. Another 130,000 put on the Soviet-style uniforms of the Brown Police to become the German Red army. Equipped with Soviet tanks, Maxim heavy machine guns and other modern weapons, they were organized into combat teams and an army group: some were assigned to a fleet of 31 armed ships, others to flight training in Yak-17s Behind the "Vopos" rose the secret police, some 30,000 organized in NKVD style...
Plainfield was plain delighted. All told, Milt had racked up 7,235 points in history's fourth best decathlon performance. Though holding a fistful of bids to attend more than 50 U.S. colleges, U.S. Decathlon Champion Campbell is looking far beyond college and the 1956 Olympics. He well knows that the rigorous decathlon is mostly a young man's game. With no appetite for professional athletics, Milt wants to become an industrial public-relations...
With his eyes open he can do even better. Says Smythies: a level-headed medical colleague "spent a quarter of an hour gazing at a plain glass full of water and trying to describe to me the perfection of its diamond brilliance." But there are also distortions. The observer may feel his limbs detach themselves from his body and lie on the floor beside him. (Not funny, insists Dr. Smythies.) The room may grow enormously or change shape, the angles becoming alternately acute and obtuse. Time slows down, so that "teatime goes on forever," and the subject "will feel quite...