Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chairman," cried Georgia's plain-spoken Carl ("Swamp Fox") Vinson, "this is the first time in my 44 years as a member of Congress, 25 years as chairman of committees presenting defense legislation, that I have seen a matter involving our national security become a subject of partisan politics...
Something Done. Last week Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek echoed Munñoz' thesis in a letter to Ike. The language was that of diplomacy, but the meaning was plain: "The widespread reaction of aversion on the part of the governments and of public opinion in the very nations in which occurred these reprovable acts against the serene and courageous person of the Vice President constitutes a proof that such demonstrations proceeded from a factious minority. Nonetheless, it would be hardly feasible to conceal the fact that, before world public opinion, the ideal of Pan American unity...
...suicidal depression, may head for the deep six, and one day she literally does take a leap into San Francisco Bay. Detective Stewart saves her from the drink and takes her home for coffee-with sugar. Soon he is crazy about the girl, but the girl is apparently just plain crazy. One day she eludes him and jumps to her death from the nearest steeple...
Then the long march began. Xenophon rallied the panic-stricken Hellenes, got them to elect five new leaders-himself included-and fight their way to the sea. The heavily armed Greeks moved laboriously across the plain, while clouds of Persian cavalry showered them with arrows. The only way out was to turn north into the mountains of Kurdistan, whose warlike inhabitants had just chopped to pieces a Persian army of 112,000 men. In seven days of ceaseless fighting with the Kurds, the Greeks suffered more than in all their battles with the Persians...
...children of the plain the most miserable were the widow Dufresne (Jo Van Fleet) and her two grown children (Anthony Perkins, Silvana Mangano), because they knew that they were miserable. The picture tells how the little family of French pioneers fought the sun and the sea and the jungle but were slowly devoured by the usual worms of lust and greed and indolence. And in the family's fall is mutely, eloquently epitomized the larger collapse of the French regime beneath what used to be called the white man's burden...