Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your story serves as a reminder to us plain folk of the Midwest plains that not all corn is on stalks...
...began calmly enough by making it plain that he wanted Britain's 50,000 troops to stay in Singapore. What he was worried about, he said, was that London itself might some day lose interest, adding: "If the British withdraw, I am prepared to go on with the Australians and the New Zealanders. But I am not prepared to go on with the Americans." When someone curiously asked why, Lee was ready and willing to answer...
...praised him as "the epitome of dedication and devotion to sailing." His wife wept. A motorcade took him to Cleveland's Public Square, where he was met by 3,000 well-wishers, many of them sporting blue and white Manry buttons passed out by his newspaper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer...
Manry was welcomed by Ohio Senator Frank Lausche and Cleveland Mayor Ralph Locher. The mayor handed him the key to the city and hailed his "courage and faith." Fifteen hundred people crowded into the Sheraton-Cleveland Hotel for a luncheon in his honor. Said Plain Dealer Publisher Tom Vail: "Here is a man who is not afraid to back up his dreams with action...
Famous Figure. Isabella was not noted for the beauty of her face. It was plain and rather round. But she had a famous figure, a nimble mind and charm. "To dominate others gave Mrs. Gardner such pleasure," a close associate later recalled, "that she must have regretted the passing of slavery." Actually, she was not a Bostonian but the daughter of a New Yorker who had made millions in importing and iron mining. At 17, she announced her ambition: "If I ever have any money of my own, I am going to build a palace and fill it with beautiful...