Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special enough for the former role nor representative enough for the latter, they're just dull. One really can't get himself to give a jolly hurrah about. Mary's search for happiness or Betsy's search for unhappiness, and after reading along for a while, it soon becomes plain how a bored psychiatrist feels...
...praised for building equity and acquiring assets. And the assets of ordinary Americans are much bigger and faster growing than their liabilities. For the great majority of Americans, debt is a means-to acquire one's own house, to achieve mobility, to invest in education or travel or plain comfort. Properly used and managed, it is not a sign of trouble but a bet on the future...
...Americans than ever-20 million in all, or three times as many as 13 years ago-now own stock. The fact was impressive, but few cheers were heard on Wall Street. Reason: not many of the 20 million seemed to be doing any buying. Confused, uncertain and frequently just plain listless, the stock market drifted down for the sixth straight week, sold off heavily on one day and closed the week with a loss of 24.75 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average. At 854.42, the market had reached its lowest point in ten months, was no longer within hailing...
Lowell's dismay at our country's recent actions in Viet Nam and the Dominican Republic." From the 400 guests, Macdonald got only seven signatures.* The others were either embarrassed or outraged. "Adolescent," snapped Author Ralph Ellison. Fumed Painter Peter Hurd: "It's just plain uncivilized." Macdonald was unintimidated. "I came here," he said, "to make trouble politically. I'm the bad fairy come to the christening...
...McDivitt, he had a few flecks of caked blood in his nostrils. The medical men figured that this was caused by the dryness of his mucous membranes from inhaling pure oxygen for so long. Their solution for future space trips: a pinch of plain old petroleum jelly in the nostrils. X rays were taken of the astronauts' little fingers and heel bones both before and after the flight to see whether their long exposure to weight lessness and inactivity caused note worthy loss of calcium. The Soviet cosmonauts suffered such bone demineralization on their flights, and patients confined...