Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That idea grew to obsess Ickes and, until McKay, the Interior Department. In 1935, under Ickes, all public lands were closed to public settlement. Thenceforth the pattern was plain: the public domain was for the Government, not the public. The result: 54% of the eleven Western states is still federal land, much of it undeveloped and unproductive. Nearly 100 million acres have never been surveyed. In Interior's forests some 9 billion valuable board feet of wind-thrown timber are moldering away, hindering new growth...
...never made a nickel in my life running down the opposition. When I was selling Chevrolets. I never said a word about Fords. Heck. I didn't even know they made 'em." Item: "Anybody who quarrels with a newspaper, a traffic cop or his wife is just plain crazy." Item: "My folks were all Democrats. I come from a long line of Democrats, but I left home and learned to read...
...building the new defenses, the Air Defense Command will exploit a happy geological accident: the Continental Shelf, a wide, submerged plain stretching out from the Atlantic Coast. Unlike the prohibitively deep waters off the Pacific Coast, the shelf abounds in shoals where the ocean floor is less than 100 feet down, providing readymade sites for man-made islands...
...also that their countrymen eat too much), eleven Swedish vegetarians aged 26 to 44 staged a ten-day fasting hike of 330 miles from Goteborg to Stockholm. Encouraged by pep talks from "Nature Doctor" Arne Wingquist, all but two stood the course, sustained by nothing more potent than plain water. One who fell by the wayside was Wingquist himself, on the ninth day. The marchers' average weight loss en route...
...hour when millions are being added to our church rolls in one of the most significant evangelistic advances in the history of the church . . . we must make it plain that the Christian demand for justice does not come from Karl Marx. It comes from Jesus Christ and the Hebrew prophets . . . We are children of a God of love. We are brothers...