Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third place, and most important matter of all, many college presidents have now taken the view that the professor's plain duty is to answer all questions, and that failure to do so is grounds for dismissal from the teaching post...
...petitioner, a plump and solemn Negro, wanted to change his name. Peaceful Heart, he felt, was a much more suitable name for a follower of Father Divine than plain old Henry Green. Judge Curtis Bok, who heard the case in Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas, was sympathetic...
Beyond the Communist darkness, plain people everywhere showed their feelings plainly: surprise, relief, curiosity, apprehension. But in chancelleries, the dictates of conscience contested with the practices of diplomacy. Officially, a policy of de mortals nil nisi bonum (but not too much bonum) generally prevailed. Some responses...
...Plain Words. The papers, which had ample warning to prepare layouts and picture spreads, covered their pages with the death story. Mexico City's Ultimas Noticias, which had headlined the story of Stalin's stroke NOT YET, told of his death with the headline FINALLY. The Christian Science Monitor, which rarely permits the word death in the paper, had trouble skirting it to cover the news. First it talked of Stalin's "incapacitation" and "departure from the driver's seat," later headlined his death ERA OF 35 YEARS PASSES WITH STALIN. The New York Times used...
...quit her teaching job to take care of the two babies, Joseph and Suzanne, she began to give private lessons in French and to play the piano at a moviehouse named the "Eden." In twelve grim years she saved enough money to buy a government land concession on a plain bordering...