Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Confidence. Just how good was the Navy's case? Obviously, the plain speech of patriotic men could not be dismissed as the whimpering of a proud service which now saw itself reduced to a second line of defense. It was clear that the Navy deeply distrusted Secretary of Defense Johnson, who had fathered the big-bomber program when he was Assistant Secretary of War before World War II, and had summarily canceled the Navy's supercarrier without consulting the Navy...
...came up for discussion in a Senate subcommittee last week, Senators from the oil states dusted off some of Olds's old clippings. The subcommittee "discovered" them with righteous horror, although the same stories had been aired on the Senate floor five years earlier. Olds, a plain-featured man with jutting ears and a smooth manner of speech, testified that he had written as he did "because I believed radical writing was needed in the 'golden '20s' to shock the American people. . . out of the social and political lethargy . . ." He emphatically denied that he had ever...
There he grooms a husky youth of the blond, Aryan type for the championship. But the slick U.S. gamblers have crossed the ocean, and they put female temptation in the way of the Blond Aryan. Some shots of late nights, cigarettes, etc. make it plain that the Blond Aryan is out of training. In the final fight he appears a pushover, but the hero rushes to the ringside and inspires his protégé to get in there and win-which he does...
...Bombay was such a scene as only an Eastern country in transition could stage. A harsh afternoon sun beat down on the airfield as the Prime Minister arrived, perspiring in his brown achkan (neck-high jacket) and white salwars (jodhpur-like pants). A small array of dignitaries, students and plain curious citizens waited near the runway...
...plain talk, this means the 110-odd men of the Orchestra have been able to shake off 25 years of routine in a little over three weeks, and adapt themselves to a new and different-regime. This was especially evident in the excerpts from Schubert's "Rosamunde," which was played with a gentleness and simplicity seldom heard under Koussevitzky. Even the standard Beethoven's "Fifth" sounded almost like a first performance...