Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miles wide and as much as 40 ft. thick, it blotted out the red-tiled roofs, orchards and unpaved streets of the town and its neighboring (villages. "I don't know why I didn't go mad," said Ranrahirca's Mayor Alfonso Caballero, pointing to the plain of mud and ice that covered his town. "That is where our cathedral used to be. It was our tallest building...
...implication is plain: that the book, which may fascinate the uninformed layman, has been dismissed by science. The statement is untrue, unwarranted and unworthy of TIME. The book is frankly controversial in its nature, frankly attacks the premises of classical anthropology, and neither seeks nor expects wholesale acceptance. But to imply that it lacks scientific backing is a fraud. May I quote...
Intellectually, such comedy is as plain as beans on a plate. Physically, it is as intricate as tumbling, and few girls have the muscles or the timing for the job. Onetime Drum Majorette Reynolds has both. She makes falling off a horse look as easy as falling off a horse...
...while the Murphys are but whispered of -to date. The prettiest Murphy of them all is said to be called 'Happy' Murphy. She is young, in her early 30s, and a country-loving girl. Already people are comparing her to the Duchess of Windsor when she was plain Mrs. Simpson. However, this seems a strange comparison, for the two women have nothing much in common-except perhaps energy. Mrs. Murphy has worked tirelessly for the Rockefeller Foundation...
Doom croakers, hand wringers and political hypochondriacs-plus some 100,000 plain, puzzled Americans-have made a 36-week bestseller out of this loosely written handful of horror stories about U.S. policy in the Pacific. Author Lederer has provided an able demonstration of how to succeed in the book business without really trying. Having hit pay dirt with The Ugly American, it was simply a matter of going back to the same place and digging some more dirt...