Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearby U.S. Military Cemetery at Margraten, The Netherlands, Harry Van Der Tuyn thought it might be a small but altogether fitting means of repaying the liberators of his country. At first his soldier was unknown to Van Der Tuyn, except for the name Pfc. Edward John Magee on the plain white marker...
Portuguese Africa consists chiefly of two massive areas of steamy plain and plateau (Angola and Mozambique) lying athwart tropical Africa's only east-west railroad. Mozambique lives off shipping to & from its landlocked neighbors, the Rhodesias, and South Africa's Transvaal...
...fence around his house. When he tried to sell not only the organ but the church's prized 13th century chalice-to get money for a parish sports program-the parish council refused to approve it. And Nick Bunt, the church warden, a testy-tempered farmer, shouted a plain warning: "If you touch that organ, I'll down...
...Mamie" are still good enough for the tabloid New York Daily News. But the staid Washington Star agreed with the Advertiser that "Ike and Mamie" are undignified now that the Eisenhowers are in the White House; the wire services have settled for "President Eisenhower," "Mr. Eisenhower," or just plain "Eisenhower." President Eisenhower himself doesn't care. His view: the formal use of titles neither adds nor subtracts from the dignity of the office...
...lecturer, he has a colorful, dynamic style. In describing the Bengali flood plain he can wax eloquent, or in quoting Macauley he can turn on a mild, elegant English accent. His oratorical style has brought one student to complain that. That rooms they give him are too small. He'd sound better in Memorial Hall...