Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atlanta, on his way to Mobile to take command of a new Flying Enterprise, Captain Kurt Carlsen, besieged by reporters, asked them: "Why . . . pay any attention to me? I'm just another plain jerk. Maybe a bigger jerk than anybody else, when you get down to brass tacks." Asked about a pin in his lapel, he explained: "I'm an honorary member of the Girl Scouts of America ... I understand now the Boy Scouts are going to give my wife...
...fraternity system itself couldn't be abolished (even if anyone wanted to do so) and it would be most unnatural for Christian fraternities to accept Jewish brothers or vice-vera. The house that had been left in a precarious position couldn't be allowed to die--"It's a plain matter of dollars and cents" we can hear one of the group telling the dean. The solution, therefore, was simple: the university would have to limit the number of Jewish students admitted each year...
...technically a member. At the congressional hearings, he wrathfully resented personal questions seeking to clarify the part he had played and the cut he had taken in some gaudily profitable surplus tanker deals (TIME, March 24); he railed against "diseased minds" among the Senators instead of giving plain answers. Then, in his investigator's role, he turned right around and prepared to ask others a lot of questions...
...Park, stopping en route for a two-hour tour of Philadelphia and an appearance at the 300th anniversary of Dutch-founded Kingston (pop. 28,817), N.Y. This week the royal couple motored down to see what had happened to another Dutch settlement, New Amsterdam. The big city made it plain that it enjoyed seeing the Queen too: a quarter-million people cheered her as she rode up lower Broadway to be welcomed at City Hall; the applause went warmly on at dinners and public appearances during her visit. In its quest for good will, The Netherlands had made no mistake...
...China Lobby, which includes among its charter members Dwight Eisenhower, who back in 1945 at Potsdam begged Truman to do all he could to keep Russia out of the Pacific War, the late Senator Vandenberg, and Senator Paul Douglas, may I point out a few facts that should be plain to experts and you and me alike...