Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to run for re-election in 1966, they dissuaded her from announcing the decision, on the grounds that it would make her a lameduck Senator too soon. Last week, after months of rumor, the word in Washington was that Senator Neuberger still intends to become plain Mrs. Solomon next year...
...dollars. Xerox collects an enviable but undisclosed sum in royalties from such companies as Apeco, SCM and Bruning, which lease and sell their own machines and market the zinc oxide-coated paper that Xerox has patented. Meanwhile, Xerox has discarded the coated-paper means of copying, now uses plain paper. While competitors argue that their copies are cheaper-about 310 each v. Xerox's 50 -Xerox remains more popular because its plain paper is more convenient, does not have the slippery feel of the coated paper...
...this season, Gottfried has informed his readers that "Arlene Francis has the vocal range of a telephone dial tone," that Pickwick's "cast, whether it is singing, dancing, talking or just plain standing around, always seems to be just plain standing around," and that the Danton's Death lead, Alan Bergmann, "has a face that not even a fly could twitch-there is not an expression, a glance, an emotion that could cross it (not even, I suspect, a shadow...
...invasion: since 1958, some 15,000 French ex-colonials, mostly from Algeria and many of Corsican origin, have swarmed onto the island. Their arrival has turned France's most underdeveloped department into its noisiest headache. The "repatriates" grabbed up much of the island's fertile eastern plain-a region that accounts for nearly half of Corsica's arable land, but was uninhabitable because of malaria until U.S. Army engineers cleared it with insecticides during World...
...moon until the end of the decade at best, U.S. firms are already preparing the tools and machines that the lunanauts will need when they get there, from a simple hammer to chip rock samples to a trackless train to carry them over the vast, hostile lunar plain...