Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moistened finger has sensed a freshening Republican breeze that could promise more campaign thunder and lightning than the Democrats had predicted. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Changing Campaign. And nowhere is a worrying Democrat more worried about changing political pressures than in California. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS' cover story, Just Plain...
...Brown grinned happily, pumped hands with a proficiency that would make Estes Kefauver seem like a subway straphanger. "Hey," he cried to no one in particular. "I feel a speech coming on." Candidate Brown was in his element, doing what he knows and likes best. He was being just plain Pat, making himself liked-and running well ahead of the opposition...
...that single point, just plain Pat and just plain U.S. Senator William Fife Knowland are in complete agreement. California is the second largest (13,600,000, against New York's 15,800,000) and fastest growing (at a breakneck clip of 500,000 a year since 1950) state in the Union. In its infinite variety, in professionally sophisticated San Francisco and professionally unsophisticated Los Angeles, in the big cotton growers of the Imperial and San Joaquin valleys and the lettuce growers of the Salinas Valley, in Okies and Arkies come to suburban prosperity, in oil drillers and gold diggers...
...Equatorial Africa and French West Africa was 1) self-government within a federation (with foreign affairs, defense and economic policy reserved to France), or 2) independence without further economic help from France. In a speech to the 240 members of Madagascar's territorial assembly, De Gaulle made it plain that if the Malagasy voted no to his constitution, France would assume that they wanted to "go it alone," shorn of the $20 million that France annually pumps into the island's budget...
...U.A.W. negotiators heatedly denied that the scattered strikes represented overall union policy. But as they prepared for top-level U.A.W. strategy sessions this week, it was plain a showdown was near. Early predictions had been that Ford would be struck. But last week, with more than two-thirds of the wildcat strikers out at G.M., the pressure had shifted. Best guess on when a strike would be called: around Oct.1, when 1959 Chevrolets should be rolling...