Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back. If we do not make good and if, heaven forbid, we go under Communism, then we shall still press against you-but not as friends." The "affluent" U.S., said Ayub, really has no choice: "You have to give it to us because so much is involved." It was plain talk-a blunt attempt to intervene in what is essentially a private U.S. argument-but it was delivered in cultured British accents, interlaced with humor, and astonished Congressmen broke into long applause...
...policy over three decades. Eden's plans for German reunification still influence Foreign Office policymakers, and Macmillan occasionally drops in on Eden at his country home to seek his views. The two do not always agree-last month, in his first major speech since his retirement, Eden made plain that he had serious reservations about the government's approach to the Common Market...
...total budget for fiscal 1962. The House vote was 412-0, and at no time during the brief debate was a suggestion made to cut the appropriation on a major point. Since the Senate is virtually certain to approve the bill in much the same form, it is perfectly plain that the 87th Congress is ready, willing and eager to give President Kennedy whatever he thinks he needs for the military defense of the U.S. and the free world...
...government is not going to let down the British farmer." Neither would it let down the Commonwealth economically, though "on the political side I've no doubt that the Commonwealth would be actually strengthened if we could reach a fair agreement with Europe." Whatever the problems, Macmillan made plain his own predilection: "I am not one of those who think that we cannot achieve a tolerable solution...
Single & Happy. Perhaps influenced by the fact that she was born only seven miles from Stratford-on-Avon, Miss Hewitt was stage-struck all her life, but considered herself too plain-looking for acting. "She looked like Churchill," said an old friend, "and when she got mad, like Queen Mary." Quitting the theatrical fringe of London in 1892, Miss Hewitt sailed for America to tutor the children of a Tuxedo Park family and then to teach small groups of children who met in socialite New York apartments. She started Miss Hewitt's Classes in 1920, backed by loans (soon...