Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your cover of Thurgood Marshall was offensive, and your account of the segregation problem unfair and untrue. You dam-yankees are all alike-just plain stupid-and not worthy of a good lynching...
...room bachelor officer's suite at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base, and had taken an office right across the hall from the office the President used before he was stricken. By 7:30 a.m. on each working day, Sherman Adams was at his plain metal desk in the uncarpeted, uncurtained office that seemed as flintlike and efficient as the man who was occupying it. Seated there, Adams fitted the nickname that he acquired back in New Hampshire: "the Rock...
...people and President have been growing closer for a generation-unbuttoned Harding more than Wilson; buttoned, homespun Coolidge more than Harding; Hoover, the self-made great engineer in a day when almost every man dreamed he was an engineer, more than Coolidge; Roosevelt, at his fireside, more than Hoover; plain Harry Truman more than Roosevelt; and Eisenhower, America's idealistic, practical, slightly nasal voice, more than Truman. Was this trend, as John Adams would have suspected, the inevitable result of the leveling factor in democracy? Or had it a subtler and more contemporary meaning...
...mention that the President had legalized the Communist Party and won its support in the 1940 elections before finally outlawing the party. When Pearson wrote that "not even an armed sentry paced outside" the presidential palace-which is guarded night and day by up to six sentries in plain view-Diario National Columnist Luis Conte Aguero exploded: "Too ridiculous to comment." Although intensive security precautions are taken to protect Batista wherever he goes, Pearson wrote that the President "had no secret service" at a political rally in central Cuba, "literally fought his way . . . through a sea of admirers." Snorted...
...dignity of his performance, lends to the father's role a sense of legendary size that reminds a moviegoer-in a picture that might otherwise have had high muzzle velocity but slight penetration-that he is witnessing not only an animated newspaper headline, but also a plain parable about human rights and the majesty of the patriarchal principle, which, from the day of the cave to the advent of the split-level, has kept the wolf from the door...