Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thomas Coates, a Negro, and Thomas H. D. Mahoney, the professor from M.I.T. Mahoney ran ninth last time, and, on the face of it, might be considered the most vulnerable. But remember one important feature of PR: candidates siphon their votes mainly, from relatively restricted areas or groups. The plain truth is that neither Mahoney or Coates draw their major support from the same elements that Maher must tap. But that doesn't mean they're completely out of trouble...
...stressed, however, that no decision would be reached without prior consultation with the United States. Officials in the administration, Sir Patrick noted, "have made it perfectly plain that they would prefer that we didn't reduce our commitments, but they understand the extent of the burden we are carrying...
...most successfully. The minutes during which Macbeth is killed are literally the most terrible I can recall on the screen. Japanese directors seem peculiarly able to treat extremes of violence, neither leering nor covering up the gore. In Throne of Blood, as in Ichikawa's Fires on the Plain or Kobayashi's Harakiri, the violence leaves one shaken and, in something close to the Aristotelian sense, purged...
...thousands of offices and factories all over Italy, the visit of a friendly little salesman with a plain brown briefcase is as much a part of the workaday routine as the coffee wagon is in the U.S. He is the neighborhood cigarette peddler, and every week he makes his rounds with a fresh supply of Camels, Kents and Marlboros at prices ranging from 40? to 48? a pack. The same brands sell at 77? to 79? at the state-owned tobacconist's, for the state tobacco monopoly imposes a 35? duty on every legally imported pack of cigarettes, while...
...document in the case is the indenture under which the trustees of James Arnold gave Harvard $100,000 in 1872. The money was to be held until it grew to $150,000 and until the land in Jamaica Plain could be acquired. It was then to be used to establish an arboretum containing, "as far as is practicable, all the trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, either indigenous or exotic which can be raised in the open air" at that site...