Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since 1787, virtually the only limit put upon the treaty power by the Supreme Court is that a treaty may not "authorize what the Constitution forbids." Even that limitation has been questioned. A circuit court of appeals declared: "It is doubtful if the courts have power to declare the plain terms of a treaty void and unenforceable...
...four days and four nights, it had rained in Kyushu. A swirling, kingdom-come downpour streamed down the mountain spine to the narrow coastal plain, spilling out the tiny rivers into a torrent of yellow foam; it took the huts and the houses, the roads and the railroads, the bridges and the viaducts; it brought down landslides to crush the upland villages. Countless thousands were marooned on islands of high ground, perched in quivering treetops, watching and fearful as the mud-churning waters flowed past. Rubbing her prayer beads, an old lady said: "I have lived a long time...
...thought the Church of England had forgotten. Much of John Wesley's journeying was uphill. Gangs of bullies dogged his steps. A heckler's stone gashed a scar upon his brow. But afoot and on horseback, he kept on going, a short little man in a plain black coat, whose hair was silken white most of his adult life. And his labors helped establish a world church of 14½ million members...
...keep the hand laundry going fast enough to provide "what seems like a thousand clean diapers a day." The hospital operates on a meager budget of $6,000 a year, and the great need, says Dr. Crane, is toys. Toys of any kind-old, fancy or plain -for the youngsters who have seen so little color and happiness in the bare hills of southwest Korea...
...show makes plain the fact that for a man of his high standing Léger is notably primitive. The most recent oil in the exhibition is a hard, startling arabesque called The Builders (opposite). Painter Léger, 72, who finished the picture in 1950, says that in it he "tried to achieve the most violent contrasts by opposing minutely realistic human figures with clouds and metallic structures." If the workers, perched on their unfinished skyscraper, are far from "minutely realistic," they do look surprisingly human-for Léger. The tough old man, who has spent a lifetime...