Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...switch from a wavelength of 1030 to 550 during the summer. When students returned to Cambridge and turned their radio sets to the College network, they occasionally discovered classical music coming in with jazz overtones, jazz coming in with a news commentator's monotone, and newscasts coming in just plain incomprehensible...
...father was a lazy farmer, a local heller who loved his booze and women. He was one of those Civil War vets who, as the years passed, made it plain that he had just about saved the Union singlehanded. Young Adam, a quiet, diffident kid, had a rough time of it. His father wanted him to be a soldier, and almost broke him down trying to toughen him. His jealous younger half-brother Charles bullied and beat him, once nearly killed him with a hatchet...
...doctors themselves wake up to tobacco's dangers. "About 80% of us are smokers," he estimates sadly, "and we behave collectively like an addict . . . Radical cure of tobacco smoking lies in its prevention and tobacco smoking is no more difficult to prevent than opium smoking. Our duty is plain...
...some people over in University Hall. Faculty members smile gently at this notion; they realize that Conant, as he should be, is by far the most influential figure in the administration of the University, and that his influence stems not only from his intellectual leadership, but also from plain administrative power. In fact, at one period the faculty considered Conant so over-bearing that some of its members characterized his as "ruth-less" and "a slide-rule administrator...
Washington planners like to describe the lagging arms program with such euphemisms as "shortfalls" and "slippages." Last week, in issuing a public alarm on the state of aircraft production, Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson used some plain, unvarnished language (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The fact was that even after the Administration had scaled down its arms schedules, it was still failing to meet its goals...