Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poured out its emotions, too. There the President's car had been a Mercedes-Benz 300, and his greeting came from towns-Troisdorf, Plittersdorf, Bonn-that had been conquered by the U.S. First Army. But in old foe Germany, as in old ally Britain, the crowds made plain their confidence in Dwight Eisenhower as the free-world leader best qualified to quest for peace based upon strength and principle. Everywhere, the banners proclaimed, WE TRUST YOU and WE RELY...
...Paris last week, pundits and plain citizens alike chattered with rage at a paper few of them had ever read-London's jingoistic, whopping (circ. 4,052,712 cut) that showed Charles de Gaulle and West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, fused into a two-headed monster, laying a wreath on the grave of onetime French Premier and Nazi Collaborator Pierre Laval...
Hollywood would not look twice at India's Lata Mangeshkar. Tin-Pan Alley might cover its ears. But last week plain little Lata, her hair braided in a pigtail, drove to one of Bombay's biggest movie studios, was ushered up to a mike, and the sweet, childish voice that struggles to rise above the accompaniment was nursed through its 6,000th recording. For 16 years, barefoot Lata has been putting on sound tracks the songs that Indian actresses fake when they appear on the screen. Now, at 29, she is the undisputed and indispensable queen of India...
...more and more U.S. churchgoers, that oldtime religion is losing its appeal. A trend toward more ritual and formality in church is on the rise, and it is now invading even the Bible Belt. Many a once plain Methodist church in Georgia, Alabama and other Southern states goes in for robed minister and choirs, stained-glass windows, sermons on theology and the life of Jesus rather than hellfire and repentance; a few even have acolytes. To some Southern Methodists, it is high time to make a stand against this creeping formalism. Said the Rev. Pierce Harris of Atlanta...
...Status Seekers, Packard (1) 2. For 2? Plain, Golden (2) 3. The Years With Ross, Thurber (3) 4. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson (4) 5. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (9 ) 6. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White (7) 7. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (5) 8.Richard Nixon, Mazo (8) 9. Senator Joe McCarthy, Rovere (6) 10. The House of Intellect, Barzunx...