Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nationalism is my banner," says Brazil's President Getulio Vargas. "No one shall ever snatch it away from me." Last week it was plain that Vargas' nationalism is plunging Brazil ever deeper into an international-trade crisis...
Pappy has no truck with razzle-dazzle football; his style of play is a combination of plain percentages and horse sense. In a new book called This Game of Football (McGraw-Hill; $4), Pappy gives away his trade secret: winning teams are the product of practice, sweat and Spartan training...
...News President Robert Smith soon made it plain that he was as concerned with a practical fear of possible "business" boycotts as he was with moral principles. Conceding that Partlow was an able employee who had never "slanted" his copy. Smith & aides promised Partlow his job back if only he would swear that the charges were not true...
Director Ben Andrews, a stutterer himself, offers no one treatment for all cases. For plain stuttering, some 20 types of treatment are used in the U.S., but none ever cures the defect entirely. Andrews' aim is limited: to remove the fear of stuttering, then reduce the amount...
...Bing gets one of his songs, Just for You, published. Sample lyric: "Spring is here and all the pretty flowers that grow, grow just for you. Skies are clear and all the little stars that glow, glow just for you." At about this point, when it is plain that Bing will make the grade with his children, it is equally obvious that Just for You will never make the grade as a merry cinemusical...