Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dragnet of troops, killed 169 rebels in 48 hours. But the FLN had made its bloody point: after Kasba Mechta, any village in Algeria will think twice before welcoming French patrols or refusing to contribute support and money to the FLN rebels. To make the lesson doubly plain, the FLN deliberately repeated the lesson with the men of two tiny communities near Oran, tortured and killed 36, wounded...
Though the counterattack had regained a lot of lost ground, the Battle of the Budget was still undecided-as the House Appropriations Committee made plain by voting a $2.5 billion slash in defense funds. It was still likely that Congress would trim Ike's $3.8 billion foreign-aid program to $3.4 billion or so, and he would have to keep fighting if he wanted to save such embattled programs as federal aid for school construction. But on one point there was no doubt: the President had, at long last, won the initiative...
...weeks ago, at an Albanian banquet in the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev made it plain that he wants Hoxha to fire off no more blasts at Tito. This was Khrushchev's way of indicating that he was prepared to resume the friendship with Tito that was interrupted by the revolt in Hungary...
...Have you stopped beating your wife?" is regarded as the symbol of all loaded questions asked by lawyers. But N.Y.U. Philosophy Professor Sidney Hook contends that the question "Do you now or have you ever beaten your wife?", is an eminently plain question and that anyone who invokes the Fifth Amendment rather than answer yes or no may be fairly suspected by his neighbors of having in fact cuffed the little woman around...
Participants should submit the names of 15 selections, on a sheet of plain paper, to the CRIMSON office before June...