Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ousted. To Ottawans, it was plain that Editor (and Rotary Club President) Hames had been fired over the hospital issue. Packing into Ottawa's Heinz Café, a committee of 61 business and professional leaders held two protest meetings to urge Hames's reinstatement. Said one committee member: "If Herb Hames is fired, freedom of the press is dead in Ottawa." When the Republican-Times lamely announced the editor's "severance in the near future," Ottawa's Protestant Ministerial Association expressed to the publishers its support of Roman Catholic Hames. Said the resolution: "We feel that...
...sheets of glass to diffuse it evenly over the pictures. Artificial light concealed above the translucent ceiling panels supplements the natural light. To finish off the galleries, now filled with a steady, shadowless illumination, the floors were paved with contrasting Carrara marble (in the Titian Room) or left with plain, unwaxed brick...
...work of art became his religious passion. It was this, says Stanislaus, that prompted Jim as a stripling to say to the mature Yeats: "I regret that you are too old to be influenced by me." Argues Stanislaus: "What my brother said, or meant to say . . . was in plain words that Yeats did not hold his head high enough for a poet of his stature, that he made himself too cheap with people who were not worthy to dust his boots...
...Come right in. The doors are closed only in the interest of efficient air conditioning." He made himself available to politicos, welcomed daily press conferences (and set up a coffeemaker for newsmen in his office suite), would interrupt almost any affair of state to have his picture taken with plain folks, who came in steady streams to pay their respects...
Trampled Will. The plain fact was that the U.S. faced increasing antagonism among Okinawa's 600,000 people. Despite the prosperity brought by 55,000 U.S. military personnel and their dependents, Okinawans resent the fact that the U.S. has commandeered one-fifth of the crowded island's arable land for military use, chafe under the U.S. refusal to consider returning the island to Japan "in the foreseeable future." * After Moore's highhanded tactics with Senaga, feeling ran so high that no pro-American candidate dared even enter the race...