Word: plainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vishinsky had offered the Russian plain in his first speech before this session of the U.N. in September, after he had belabored the U.S. and Britain for trying to start an atomic war. It proposed: 1) that the assembly condemn "preparations for war" being made by the two western nations; 2) that the assembly outlaw the atomic bomb as a weapon; and 3) that the assembly request the Big Five (U. S., Britain, France, China, and Russia) to make a new non-aggression pact...
...reflection of their faith is warming Okinawa's people. On a hill above the southern Okinawa plain lie the ruins of Shuri castle; all that remains of the ancient home of Okinawa's rulers is an iron drinking fountain shaped like a dragon with gaping jaws out of which pours a clear stream of water into a quiet pool. Just above the old castle site stand five new, wooden, tile-roofed buildings. It is the new Ryukyus University, Okinawa's first, which the military government's Education & Information Office has finally managed to open...
Fill the Bleachers. Whitman students disagreed. What the school needed, they decided, was more paying spectators to get more money for more athletic scholarships. The first step to that end was plain: fill the bleachers for the season's last game, with Eastern Oregon College of Education...
...should know anything about the common cold, that man is Dr. Christopher Howard Andrewes. For the-past three years, 1,500 volunteers, furnished with free board, lodging and viruses, have spent ten-day periods under his observation at Harvard Hospital on England's Salisbury Plain. Last week, Cold Expert Andrewes told a large audience at Harvard Medical School (which helped finance its English namesake) just how little he has learned...
Died. Russell Weisman, 59, self-styled "renegade Democrat" who opposed the New Deal through a double career as professor of economics at Western Reserve University and as daily columnist and editorial writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer (circ. 273,914); after a heart attack; in Cleveland...