Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the head resident of a Radcliffe dormitory tore open a plain envelope, addressed simply to "Bertram Hall." There was no explanatory letter inside, only a half dozen business cards labelled "Male Escort Bureau... escorts for all legitimate occasions." The card promised "confidential service" for a minimum...
Khrushchev had already made plain that, when things count, his own Foreign Secretary, Andrei Gromyko, is an errand boy. Macmillan, not Selwyn Lloyd, speaks for his government; De Gaulle, not Couve de Murville, decides for France. And the U.S. would have to be represented by an ailing Secretary of State, or a new one. If Big Four talks among such proxies got nowhere, it was generally agreed, there would be a heads-of-government meeting...
Occasionally the Crimson's shotmaking was brilliant, as in the second Yale game (41 per cent). But more often it was just plain lousy, largely because no more than one-fourth of the varsity's attempts came from inside the foul circle. The team average on the year from the floor was a paltry 33.5 per cent, compared to the opponents' 38.3 per cent, a very significant difference...
...Verdi in a letter to his publisher in 1892. But Verdi, who had already received one of the handsomest premiums ever offered a composer, was persuaded not to burn Falstaff. Along with the originals of Verdi's 26 other operas, it was long stored in Milan in a plain brownstone office building at No. 2 Via Berchet, not far from La Scala. The opera house is more famous, but the office building has done at least as much to shape the rhapsodic flow of Italian music. Its name: Casa Ricordi...
...novel is centered upon London, a city struggling to forget the Pusan road, "the Commonwealth youngsters skewered on the Dieppe beaches," and Kenya's savage snipers. As the story unfolds-it is seen through the plain, distressed eyes of Captain Alan Curtis, veteran of Korea, Kenya, Cyprus-TV Tycoon Lord Arthur Illius announces plans for a Festival of London. A prize, gravely named the Grail, is offered to the citizen who contributes the best ideas to the festival, so all Britain is abuzz with ludicrous suggestions: "Demands to restore the pillory; to rebuild horse-troughs; proposals that women should...