Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seconds later President Eisenhower was back at his desk, starting one of his busier weeks after an upset stomach had laid him low for a day and set statesmen, stock-market investors and plain people around the world to looking anxiously toward Washington...
...antirebel drive began, Batista made his determination plain. He sent his PT boats, subchasers and gunboats to blockade the coastline south and west of the mountains. He airlifted more than 250 army reinforcements from Havana to Oriente. His Air Force B-26s skimmed the mountain treetops, looking for signs of rebel movements. He bitterly denounced "predatory oppositionists" and "criminal elements, including Communist collaborators," who "seek through terrorism and disorder to damage their nation's economy as well as its prestige to satisfy their own personal anti-patriotic ambitions." He rejected any thought of a truce...
Actually, said Cottonman Fleming, the Department of Agriculture export program is just plain old-fashioned dumping, and the U.S. has laws to punish other countries who try to do this in the U.S. Now, said Fleming, "by espousing international dumping as the key procedure for liquidation of cotton surpluses, we have initiated a reaction from these principles, back toward an isolationism which, if adopted by other nations, will play havoc with our export markets...
...some cases the best preservation was disguised as destruction. Swallowed up and believed lost forever when ships carrying them went down, countless Greek statues rested at the bottom of the sea for a couple of millenniums. Now many of them have been fished out, and it is plain that Father Neptune was a first-rate curator. Among others, three bronzes, of a god a philosopher and a youth (opposite), came up looking little the worse for their long immersion, were sent back to the place of their origin, and are now on view at the National Museum in Athens...
...enchantment, casts a spell and burns a figure (made of a nylon stocking stuffed with paper). Mother catches her at it: "Whatever were you burning? It smells very funny." Most readers will agree, but Daddy is recalled to his responsibilities, the Labor Party and Mother. Novelist Murdoch's plain moral: better a dull fate than an absurd adventure. But the figure of Rain, that Audrey Hepburn sprite, has become an obsessively recur rent character in Iris Murdoch's work, suggesting that inside every female philosopher there is a pixy struggling to be let out to play...