Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state funds to the white Citizens' Council, welcomed the visiting U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Last June, when it was plain that Congress would pass a voting rights bill, Governor Johnson called a special session of the legislature and submitted the proposed constitutional amendment. The Senate went along, but the House balked, twice voted it down, endorsed it the third time around only after Johnson threw all his prestige behind the bill...
...Tether. So was the rest of the world. Seventy-eight days earlier, Manry, a copy editor at the Cleveland "Plain Dealer, had quietly set out alone in the 131-ft. Tinker belle from Falmouth, Mass., for the other Falmouth 3,200 miles away, thinking no one would pay any attention. No one did until a fortnight ago, when it suddenly seemed possible that he was actually going to make it all the way to England. Then came the world headlines. Falmouth trawler captains gave up fishing to haul boatloads of journalists in search of the red-sailed dinghy; some reporters...
...more backyards for Manry. The Plain Dealer, which was scooped two weeks ago by the rival Cleveland Press about Manry's progress (TIME, Aug. 20), sent a bevy of reporters to serve as his escort. Autograph seekers stopped him on the street. Offers for books and magazine pieces have begun pouring in. Cleveland plans a hero's welcome when he returns home next week, and Ohio's Republican Congressman William Minshall has proposed that Tinkerbelle be placed in the Smithsonian Institution alongside Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis...
...Hillhouse High School Principal Robert T. LeVine, 57−or someone in his office−carried that laudable ambition to excess. In December 1963, Yale University's Admissions Dean Arthur Howe complained that many Hillhouse applications to Yale showed higher grades than those the students actually got. In plain words, somebody seemed to be doctoring the marks to get marginal students into college...
...huge earrings that hung down to her collarbone. The rest of the Warhol entourage included Chuck Wein, Harvard '60, who peroxides his hair and wears it long, and Don Lyons, another Harvard man, who is a teaching fellow in Greek classics, wears his hair short and leaves it plain...