Word: plainest
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...tension showed plainest in his golf game, which he generally plays in the 80s with a concentration that banishes all other concerns. Though the rubbernecking crowds that bothered him last year were banned from the Newport Country Club this year, Ike's golf seemed to suffer from the stares of newsmen, who can watch the first six holes from the clubhouse. Press Secretary James Hagerty smilingly asked reporters not to follow the games too closely, but the ninth hole, a par four right by the clubhouse, continued to be a psychological sand trap worse than the course...
Plain Account. To skeptics who doubt that courts can ever control passions between nations, A.B.A. discussion of integration rulings was a lesson, for it demonstrated the faith of U.S. lawyers in law as the means of achieving racial justice in the face of awesome strain. In one of the plainest accounts yet of the precedents that, case by case, led the Supreme Court to overturn the separate-but-equal doctrine (Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896), Attorney General William P. Rogers calmly laid down the law, left no doubt that defiant acts against integration would again be handled firmly. "The ultimate issue...
...become "politically civilized." Then he announced that the Constituent Assembly, Colombia's make-do Congress, would not sit this year. "A Parliament," he explained, "is the greatest achievement of democracy, but when it becomes a tribune for libel, it must be closed." The last and plainest word came from the government's radio bulletin, which all Colombian stations are forced to carry. After an exhaustive defense of military government, the program concluded that there are "three incontrovertible arguments" for the army state: "Patriotism, intelligence, and machine guns...
Annoyed, Sir John furiously delivered himself of the conference's plainest talk. If Chou really believed in coexistence, said Sir John, why did he not call off the subversive activities of the Communist parties throughout Asia? (see box next page). From that moment on, any move at Bandung to denounce "Western colonialism" while ignoring Communist imperialism was doomed to failure...
Though at 63 Joe Welch has the manner of a Louisburg Square patrician, he comes from the plainest Midwestern pioneer stock. Both his parents were English-born. Father William Welch ran away to sea at 14, wandered the world for 15 years (including a three-month hitch with the British army during the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857), finally immigrated to his brother's' farm in Illinois and married the hired girl. William Welch was a simple man and good, but in his years at sea, he developed an abiding affection for the bottle. Martha Welch decided to remove...