Word: plaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy well knew that the issue of religion might hurt him in 1960 as it hurt "the Happy Warrior" in 1928. Consequently, out of a shrewd sense of political necessity, Candidate Kennedy provoked discussion of his Catholicism months ago, got accustomed to facing blunt questions with plain answers, and managed to run his fleet-footed political race with remarkably little religious heckling. But last week Kennedy found himself caught in a Catholic-Protestant clerical crossfire on the incendiary issue of birth control. And before the week was over even the Protestant Democratic candidates were catching the ricochets...
...Chou En-lai negotiated with Indonesia a curious treaty giving the Chinese settlers the option of either citizenship; but, in fact, nearly 75% retain Red China passports. Last year President Sukarno closed down Nationalist Chinese schools and shops-to Peking's delight. But last May, Sukarno made it plain that all Chinese were eventually to be hobbled. He ordered some 80,000 rural "alien" businessmen, worth $65 million, to move into the cities or out of Indonesia by the end of the year...
...Plain, Golden...
...again peeved. Why didn't Ike let Monty take the bulk of the armies and finish off the Germans in the Ruhr? Instead, Ike insisted on forming up along the Rhineland, fighting wherever he found the enemy in force. The Battle of the Bulge was, of course, the plain result of U.S. military ineptitude, and a very good thing it was that Montgomery was handy to fend off disaster-although how he did it was never made clear. And so it goes...
Dunham eventually remarries, after a harrowing period in which Katherine and an older brother are farmed out haphazardly to a succession of relations. But the new wife is plain and the family poor. Dunham withdraws into brooding resentment, emerging now and then to tongue-lash his wife and belt-whip his children...