Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Damn Lie." The Teamsters' power plant began to backfire. Speaker Sam Rayburn, told that Jimmy Roosevelt and Zagri were claiming that Rayburn was in favor of their bill, sent out a plain comment: "It's a damn lie." Mr. Sam called in the hardest-pressed of the committee members, particularly freshmen, to assure them that the Speaker himself would campaign for any man put in serious trouble by Zagri's efforts. Labor Committee Chairman Graham Harden of North Carolina growled threats about investigating "brazen outside influences...
...anti-intellectualism of today is no longer contempt for a low-status group. It is more likely fear of a high-status group-"a kind of populist antagonism to any elite." To the now defunct Facts Forum, a Texas mouthpiece for the late Joe McCarthy, the enemy was plain: "The American respectables, the socially pedigreed, the culturally acceptable, the certified gentlemen and scholars, dripping with college degrees...
MONTSERRAT, "the Saw-Toothed Mountain," is one of the holiest places in the shrine-rich Mediterranean world. Rising in sheer purple splendor above the plain 30 miles inland from Barcelona, Spain, the mountain is topped with spires of steeple-like rock. And there, inside the crown, perches an ancient fortress-monastery, where the "Black Virgin" is enshrined. Legend has it that the dark wooden Madonna with the Child upright in her lap appeared as if by miracle within a cave in the mountain one day ten centuries ago. First a church, then a monastery was built near the peak...
...grueling was the grind that only 65 of the 120 starters, Europe's best bicycle racers, were able to finish, and at the end of 24 days and 2,680 miles of plain and mountain, the victory in the 46th annual Tour de France went to an iron-legged, 137-lb. Spaniard named Federico Baha-montes, 31, who had never before won a major international bike race...
...Washington hostess. Eventually, Britton decides that he, too, can be ruthless, and in fact, Edithless. Boldly following the urge that is the 27-year itch of many a marriage, he deposits $320,000 with discreet Swiss bankers, shaves off his mustache and his Harvard accent and, as plain old Llewellyn Jones, decamps...