Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mikoyan's public grin soon turned into a private growl. Meeting with Japanese Premier Ikeda, he made plain the real reason for his visit: to rail against U.S. military bases in Japan. "Japan is tied to the United States through a security pact that is in fact an aggressive military pact," snarled the salesman, adding that if the Berlin crisis led to war, Japan, because of its U.S. bases, could expect a Russian attack. However, said Mikoyan, "we are making every effort to prevent war." Then he proposed to Ikeda that Russia and Japan sign...
...versatile Head of State. Schecter found him looking younger than his 38 years, a man who, when aroused in conversation, waves his hands, pounds his fists, wags his fingers. In high-pitched English, Sihanouk, a sensitive man working hard to live down an earlier reputation as a playboy, made plain that he now views the world as paying the price for ignoring his advice...
...theories of defense, I've been scouring TIME for some allusion to the sure and fearsome threat this new posture imposes. Inasmuch as no right thinking dictator will use A-or H-bombs for fear of reprisal, nor "conventional" arms because of our budgeted buildup, it's plain that the next war must be fought with triremes, broadswords, crossbows and assagais. (Would catapults be cheating?) I do hope we have alerted our archery clubs, hammer throwers and those of our allies still expert with spear and blowgun (politicians might qualify on the latter...
...South Viet Nam army was feeling exhilarated about its victory three weeks ago over a big Viet Cong guerrilla force on the Plain of the Reeds. The Communist Viet Congs obviously could not leave it at that. They handed out leaflets cockily warning that trouble would come at any moment in President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital stronghold of Saigon. That same night, trouble came. As a truck loaded with troops pulled out of an army camp scarcely two miles from Diem's palace, a terrorist lobbed a grenade from the shadows. Two soldiers were killed, three more...
...stuffs it into his shirt pocket, while the unrelenting blabber transists him like exhaust fumes. If he is using an earpiece receiver, identification may be more difficult, but there are certain telltale signs, as there are of hopheads and alcoholics: a faraway look of rapture, or just a plain, vacant stare...