Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...riots started when 2,000 students met at the big student hostelry on downtown Narutowicza Square to protest the action of Wladyslaw Gomulka's press-control office in banning the country's boldest and best-known crusading student weekly, Po Prostu (Plain Speaking). Po Prostu had zealously supported Gomulka in his stand against Nikita Khrushchev and the rest of Poland's Soviet overlords last year, but since then had lent its own voice to the rising crescendo of intellectual discontent with the slow pace of Gomulka's democratization...
Barely a week after it peacefully chose a President-elect, Haiti went back to the jungle law that has ruled the island for almost a year. As losing candidate Louis Déjoie fled into hiding, vanished, vowing trouble, the ruling military junta issued a panicky decree authorizing plain citizens to shoot on sight "outlaws," i.e., political opponents of the government. The U.S. embassy warned American citizens of the growing danger and began flying families of U.S. officials to Puerto Rico. Reason: in the growing breakdown of law and order, one U.S. citizen had already been brutally killed...
Three years ago Montreal's ex-Mayor Camillien Houde, who had just retired after running the city with all the uproar, fun and profit of a bingo game, was asked by a local matron what he thought of the new mayor, a prim, plain lawyer named Jean Drapeau. Replied Houde: "He is a little man, madame, a little man." But last week, with a new election three weeks off, Politician Houde had changed his mind. Just as a boom got rolling to return him as mayor of Canada's biggest city (and the second largest French-speaking city...
...change a nigger a few hours a day in school. Their families are the same way. Dirty, lazy, sick. More venereal disease, more rapes, more murders, more drinking, more crime, just plain more trouble than whites, all the time. That's statistics, too. You can look it up. It may be our fault they're that way. Maybe the whites should feel responsible. I don't say we're not. I guess most of the trouble is that they're all so poor you folks up here couldn't understand it, and they've always been poor, and they...
...small hut on a dry plain near the Adriatic, seventy men are working feverishly to prove to the world that they are the legal government of their republic. On a mountain near the plain near the Adriatic, another hundred men insist they are the true, Communist government for the same republic. Instead of missiles the antagonists are hurling insults, but for all else, San Marino today is a microcosm of the world...