Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Come Out, Nigger." As the trial began, Montgomery's firm, plain-spoken Circuit Judge Eugene Carter looked out at Martin Luther King, surrounded by eight lawyers and backed by some 150 Negro spectators, many of them wearing cloth crosses with the words, "Father, forgive them." Prosecutor William Thetford produced evidence that the Montgomery Improvement Association had disbursed about $30,000 for boycott purposes; e.g., drivers in the boycott's 200-car motor pool were paid up to $24 a week...
...plain-speaking Senator from Tennessee has confounded most of the political experts and given a painful kick in the shins to the DemocraticFarmer-Labor brass of Minnesota. Certainly a number of Republicans crossed over party lines for this occasion and probably most of these wanderers voted for Kefauver...
...Explain (Jeri Southern; Decca). One event in the he-she cycle that is very rarely explored in pop tunes: the philanderer's return. Songstress Jeri Southern gives it a fairly heart-wrenching onceover in a plain but expressive voice, while in the background a baritone sax cries hoarsely...
...controls the island. Eden could not say this, but concluded: "The welfare and even the very lives of our people depend on Cyprus as a protective guard and staging post to take care of [our Middle East] interests-above all, oil. This is not imperialism. It should be the plain duty of any government, and we intend to discharge it." Tories cheered...
When he first took office, it looked as if Ike might return to the Hoover pattern. As a candidate, he met the press with plain misgivings, and his election sparked widespread speculation that he might go back to written questions and answers. It took him almost a year to overcome his distaste for the sharp questioning at the conference. Since then, his enjoyment of press conferences-like his skill in handling them-has grown steadily...