Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seventh Army in Germany on constant alert against the day the "balloon goes up" in Western Europe. Merely staying combat-ready in peacetime is tough enough, but the hard-training Seventh is plagued by an even tougher problem: one in three of its 165,000 tankers, atomic cannoneers and plain gravel crunchers should never have been sent overseas in the first place. Reason: they are "eight balls," mentally equivalent to sixth-grade schoolboys, a disciplinary headache to their commanders and a serious drag on their fellow G.I.s...
FIRES ON THE PLAIN (246 pp.)-Shohei Ooka-Knopf...
...implications were plain: Khrushchev was keenly aware of the tug of capitalist freedom. And the implications lent special weight to Dulles' words-before-the-fact definition of the basis of U.S. foreign policy. "The government which is responsive to the will of the people, which admits of diversity and freedom of thought, is the government which has the future ahead of it," he told the newsmen. "I don't put any dates on these things. I don't say what is going to happen in one year, five years, ten years, but I am confident that that...
Salesman Current, appointed business manager, found a complete newspaper plant for sale at Charleston, W. Va. Able Editor Bob Barton, who had also quit the News, was lured back from the Cleveland Plain Dealer as the Citizen's editor; 76 other News staffers and 130 of 164 News carrier boys came to work for the new paper. "It's just like the News had picked up and moved," exulted one reporter. Salesmen signed up their old clients. Circulation men built an advance readership...
...year-old student at Tokyo's Aoyama Gakuin University was just plain bored: somehow, he decided, he would have to get rid of his tiresome prostitute sweetheart. And so, one day last fall, Kenjiro Yoshida invited her around to his dormitory and strangled her with a necktie. Three months later, police found her body under the dormitory floor...