Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decades the men of modern ' architecture and design have been perpetuating a plain world made of the cube, the cage and flat glass. Now they have begun to find their world pretty stark. Seeking inspiration for more richness, variety and delight, designers and architects have developed a new, absorbing interest in the fanciful work of men they once scorned and reviled, including a relatively obscure Spanish architect named Antoni Gaudi. For a report on this forward-through-backward trend, see ART, New Art Nouveau...
...President was already on record with a plain answer that was a forthright choice of moral right over political expediency. Asked about Benson's prospects at his press conference, Ike said: "He is honest in his great effort to find proper, reasonable, sensible programs. When we find a man of this dedication, this kind of courage, this kind of intellectual and personal honesty, we should say to ourselves, 'We just don't believe that America has come to the point where it wants to dispense with the services of that kind of a person...
Ydigoras, 62, was the first Latin American chief of state, incumbent or elected, to visit Washington in over two years, and his welcome was warm. It grew even warmer when the visitor made it plain that he had not come begging. At breakfast with President Eisenhower in the White House, he spoke gratefully of some $80 million worth of dollar aid given his assassinated predecessor, U.S.-favored Carlos Castillo Armas. With about $35 million of the aid funds still unspent, Ydigoras said that the only additional aid he might need would be a relatively modest sum for fighting malaria...
...Yale meet is an end in itself. But added to this truism is the plain fact that if the varsity wrestlers can get by the Elis on the IAB mats at 3:30 this afternoon, they will end their season in second place in the league...
With Penn meeting Princeton tonight at Tigertown, it is plain that the best the varsity can achieve in the League standings is a tie for third place...