Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Roberts picked F. (for Frank) Peavey Heffelfinger, 55, millionaire Minneapolis grain man. Lean, hardworking Peavey Heffelfinger† is executive vice president of F. H. Peavey & Co., an old (79 years), conservative, family-owned firm which operates elevators, grain trucks, flour and feed mills. As plain as an old shoe in dress, mannerisms, and the way he runs his business, Yale man Heffelfinger has kept largely in the G.O.P. background. But his wife, an early supporter of Harold Stassen, has worked in the G.O.P.'s Minnesota front ranks for more than a decade, has been...
There were several reasons for their truly Universal sense of debt to the Prophet. Before he admitted them to the church, they had simply been plain Chicago schoolteachers, the spinster sisters Evelyn and Esther Jackson. But the Prophet grandly gave them titles, and they emerged the Princesses Bluntella and Essentina. On top of that, in 1949, he "cured" their 70-year-old mother's goiter by sending her to Gary, Ind. four times to get a drink of water in the bus station...
...long queues before the banks, plain folk waited for hours. For those caught without new currency, the government doled out emergency rice rations. Communist bandits in South Korea, who need money for their own purposes, were hard hit-they did not dare to appear at exchange windows. At Kobu in the southwest, 15 of them attacked a government finance office, killing a guard and a bystander, and made off with $6,000 worth of the new hwan. Some of Rhee's political enemies noted bitterly that the new system will make it difficult for opposition parties to convert their...
...create a graphic shorthand of his own, which amounted to putting space in parenthesis. He prized economy of line as much as the Chinese masters, but where they were flattish and fluent, he was spacious and staccato. Simply by the power of his pen, Rembrandt could make plain paper take on the bright leaden hue of winter sky stretching heavy over snow-muffled acres. As easily it seems, as another man would scrawl his name, he sketched fence, farmhouse trees and far-off mill into deep, cold stillness...
Under the court's rules, lawyers or witnesses could only confirm or deny what newsmen asked them, were forbidden to volunteer information. It turned out to be a broad charter. Before the trial had well begun, it was plain that opposing lawyers notably Pat Ward's elegantly dressed belligerent lawyer J. Roland Sala (see NEWS IN PICTURES), were letting out bits of evidence to help their side, and attempting to try the case in the newspapers. After each court session, Star Witness Pat Ward, 19, who had started the whole case by charging that Jelke was boss...