Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wilson moves into his blue-and gold-painted private dining room for the long staff luncheon. The food is plain-there are always salted peanuts on the table for Wilson-and talk, all business, is plentiful. At these informal meetings, Wilson's guests get an opportunity to feel him out on policy questions, and Wilson, in turn, gets posted on current problems in the services. On Tuesdays he has a standing appointment with the President and a meeting with the Armed Forces Policy Council, made up of the Pentagon's top civilian brass. On Wednesdays he meets with...
Looking out over devastated Europe at war's end in 1945 the journalists of the world-plain reporters and exalted pundits-considered the future and, to a man, came to the same conclusion: Europe would go left and socialist. The right, dishonored by the Petains and Papens, and by its devotion to 19 century capitalism, was doomed. The center, caught between the stridencies of right & left, and forced to choose, would have to go left. Communists and Socialists had made a name in the undergrounds and concentration camps. And in the end, Socialism, the wave of the future, would...
...live story of the coronation by bouncing TV images off the moon, and thence across the Atlantic; CBS was ready to hurl its film from London to the U.S. by the latest thing in guided missiles. As of this week, both networks were apparently ready to settle for plain jet planes...
...just luck," says Campy. "When you're hitting, you hit." Sturdy Catcher Campanella (5 ft. 8 in., 195 Ibs.) should know: he has had other dazzling early-season hitting streaks which faded into just plain competence by midseason. But he acknowledges that he is standing "a little closer to the plate" than he did last year, when his season's batting average was only .269. "That gives me a little more wood on the ball." Whatever the explanation, Campanella's hitting is a profound source of pleasure to Brooklyn Manager Charley Dressen. who has been shuffling...
Releasing Corp.) is what the wife (Anna Magnani) of a poor Rome workingman calls her rather plain little pigtailed daughter (Tina Apicella). The mother has harddriving ambitions to make a movie actress out of her little "Most Beautiful," but in the end she turns down a film offer because she comes to the conclusion that her daughter should lead a simple, healthy family life instead...