Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went on: "I have not had the background of a diplomat. I grew up among the children of the streets and the mines, the sons of workers. My abruptness is not a sign of violence but of frankness." With this standard gambit of Soviet diplomacy-provocation excused as plain speaking-Nikita was off on another anti-German diatribe. "I tell you," he said, "I am worried. I am worried by the words pronounced in Rome by [West German] Chancellor Adenauer that God has invested Germany with the special mission of saving Europe . . . This is the rebirth of Hitler...
...girls as his subjects, Avedon got them to look slinkily feline under a variety of hairdos purporting to be Egyptian. He achieves his most eye-catching effect with Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, thereby moving another glamorous tigress, New York Mirror Society Chatterist "Suzy" to comment: "When they make her a plain jane on those TV potboilers, they spoil a good thing." Said Harper's Bazaar of Avedon's gallery girls: "They belong to women who are sloe-eyed to the soul." For years, most Swedes have believed that Heavyweight Boxing King Ingemar Johansson, 27, and pretty Birgit Lundgren...
IRRIGATION (douche) to wash out the sperm after intercourse. The water may be plain, or have added boric acid, vinegar or proprietary compounds sold "for feminine hygiene." Relatively ineffective...
Amidst the dry, gum-tree scrub of Rum Jungle, 60 miles inland from the Timor Sea, miners clad only in boots and shorts drilled uranium out of soft slate. At Woomera, where the waterless South Australian plain stretches endlessly off to the horizon, romantically named drones and missiles-Jindiviks, Blue Streaks and Black Knights-soared over the free world's largest land rocket range. In beach-girt Sydney, schoolteachers and tram conductors exchanged stock market tips, and in stately Adelaide, where Australia's first major Festival of the Arts was in full swing, T. S. Eliot...
...wanted to be sure he was dead." Thus, the legend goes, did Movie Magnate Sam Goldwyn dispose of his longtime colleague and competitor, Louis B. Mayer. By quoting the remark near the start of his new biography, Hollywood Rajah (Holt; $5.50), New York Times Movie Critic Bosley Crowther makes plain that he feels no kindlier toward the onetime junk dealer who became one of Hollywood's gaudiest tycoons, created stars from Garbo to Rooney, wrote his name on some of the best and worst pictures of his day, and ruled much of the movie business with his special brand...