Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...else but Artzybasheff could capture the hopeless, despairing mood of East Germany's captive peoples with as simple a device as a chain and a spectral padlock. The compelling message of this cover picture is plain, and needs no words of explanation. (MRS.) ALICE A. PAULSON...
...abandoned his customary gaiters to tromp the neighboring moors, in a vacation ensemble of cloth cap, tweed sports jacket and flannel bags. As for the inner man. the Archbishop appeared to find the pub's cuisine quite as appealing as that of Lambeth Palace. "It's good plain stuff," he purred, "and I like a drop of cider with it. The cider rounds off the meal...
Mulling over pleas from California Republicans to run against Democrat Pat Brown in the state's gubernatorial race next year, Los Angeles Attorney Richard Nixon made it plain that he had had more than his fill of unsolicited advice on the matter. "Many are saying what they would do if they were in my position." snapped the former Vice President. "Well, my answer to that is that they are not in my position." Deferring to the sensitivities of his recent opponent, President Kennedy told his press conference that he would give his opinion on the matter-"I do have...
...White House meeting that night, Bissell made it plain that unless U.S. air power was brought forward, the men on the beach were doomed. He asked that Boxer's planes be brought into the battle. Rusk still would not have this. Several others were also opposed, including the President's personal staffers. Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke vouched for the worth of Bissell's proposition. The outcome of the meeting was a singular compromise. Jets from Boxer would provide cover next morning for exactly one hour, long enough for the ships to run into the shore...
...longer an honorable profession but a vicious police action. He conceded that the rebels were murderous, but could not justify to himself committing murder in vengeance. When he sees his own men wiping out whole villages of unarmed civilians, he protests; by that time, it is perfectly plain to his superiors that, with all his bravery, Larsan is not the man for the job. With true French civility, his commanding officer accepts his resignation...