Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...badly we need a leader of Teddy Roosevelt's plain, old-fashioned guts today. Instead, we are stuck with pussyfooting little politicians, afraid of the voters' shadows. Would T.R. ever have sanctioned the ruinous farm surplus system, the Korean disaster, the betrayal of Hungary, the Aswan Dam blunder...
...argument that we face a mutually exclusive choice between a much bigger federal budget and substantive tax reductions dangerously misreads the plain facts about the current economic situation. We need action along both of these lines...
Last week Longmont decided to end its big Saturday night. Thanks to mechanization on the farms and better roads, farm families no longer save Saturday night for the old ritual; they have more time, can shop more frequently. To Chamber of Commerce members, the proof was plain enough: Saturday-night business has been dropping regularly for years. Henceforth, Longmont stores will stay open on Wednesday night for late shoppers, close early on Saturday night. Said a C. of C. member: "It was strictly a matter of yielding to the agrarian revolution and the tempo of our times." Added a farmer...
...Harvard Glee Club ranged themselves in a semicircle on Boston's Jamaica Plain and began to serenade the ladies in the lighted window above. They warbled songs like Mother, I'm Slowly Dying and The Man in the Moon's Ball. Midway through, they were interrupted by a band of town boys who made rude noises on wind instruments, unhitched the Harvards' horses and sent them trudging on foot back to Cambridge. That was in Harvard's musical infancy. Last week the glee club assembled again (present membership: 135) to celebrate its centennial with...
Since the recession, many dailies have been playing up Sylvia Porter's sharpwitted, clearly written daily column on economics. The Cleveland Plain Dealer has added two topical syndicated columns: "You and Your Job" and "Family Finance." A five-part recession roundup filed by the Associated Press last week was used by most papers-including many that maintain there is no recession. Though it had yet to focus on human angles of the slump in its own backyard, the encyclopedic New York Times reached across the world to report repercussions of U.S. economic pangs...