Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first post-election press conference the morning after Election Day with his chin high and a jaunty half-smile on his lips, but when he left half an hour later, he was drawn, grey, visibly weary. Veteran White House reporters had never seen him tire so fast. It was plain that the Democratic landslide had jolted Dwight Eisenhower badly-that he found it painful to talk about...
...most ambitious pictures are sometimes the least successful, being too finicky and insistent. But Roasted Chestnuts bids fair to rival Wyeth's famed Young America (TIME, July 16, 1951) as a national icon. Young America shows a boy in G.I. castoffs riding a gaudy bicycle across a limitless plain. Roasted Chestnuts gives new depth to the romance. It looks like the same boy, grown to gangly youth. He stands light and tall beside his homemade chestnut stove, at the edge of a bare, wintry highway, awaiting all the world...
Rowing for the traditional Hacker's Cup, a plain china cup and saucer, four lightweight crews will row the Henley distance over the Charles River Basin course...
...Isabella Stewart Gardner of Boston was a plain Jane with weird endearing ways. All men were apparently fascinated by her. To Bernard Berenson, who constantly advised her on what to buy, she was "the Serpent of the Charles [River]." To T. Jefferson Coolidge she was "Aphrodite with a lining of Athene." Henry James wrote to her about "those evenings at your board and in your box, those tea-times in your pictured halls [which] flash again in my mind's eye as real life-saving stations." To her patient husband she was simply "Busy Ella...
Viscount Montgomery's line was war. Sandhurst. 3½ years with the regular Army, and active service in France in World War I were more than prep schools on the way to promotion. In marching infantry prose, his book makes it plain that when he took command of the British Eighth Army in Africa in World War II, he was ready. According to him, and to history, he made Desert Fox Rommel fight Montgomery's kind of fight, and Monty won. Was he too tidy? Did all the pieces on his chess board have to be perfectly placed...