Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strong TV lights accentuated new lines in his face and highlighted a thin, somewhat scrawny neck. It was a long speech-53 minutes-and the President read it rapidly, sometimes almost perfunctorily. It was devoid of any high rhetoric or drama -intentionally so. The President wanted to make it plain that he was saying as much as he could about the war and, at the same time, had far more domestic plans than anyone had imagined...
Next year you won't have to go to Stowe, if State Rep. David S. Tobin (D. Jamaica Plain) has his way. All you'll have to do is grab your skis and ride the MBTA to the Arborway...
...little girl who had a curl right in the middle of her forehead: when it is good, it is very good, and when it's bad, it certainly is horrid. Like the little girl, it is moody, often funny, sometimes serious, frequently and petulantly cute, and then again just plain naughty. Within a scant hour, it manages to touch on the following subjects: the American Ideal, larceny, age, prostitution, sypnilis, dope addiction, juvenile delinquency, homosexuality, et al. That kind of range would be difficult in any play--in The Great American Desert, it's insurmountable...
...until she lands by mistake in another wrong bed. In fact, she is the incarnation of a loud, bumptious, overdressed lady tourist on the town. Which raises another question: If Doris Day becomes America's bad-will ambassador abroad, what hope can there be for the plain folks back home...
...reasons for his suggested amendment, which was voted down 5-4, would become plain, he said, as the dispute proceeded...