Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordinariness (even morally commendable ordinariness) is closely akin to plain dullness. Frequently The Negro Cowboys slows down to a heavy-footed stagger. Since Negroes were at home in Western society, reminiscences about their exploits get just as mawkish as any Western yarns...
...Plain Facts...
...advertisement, the faculty members specifically charged the United States with violating the 1954 Geneva agreement over Indo-China. They asserted that it is the government, and not faculty critics, that disregards the "plain facts" of the Vietnam...
...your judgment that the problem of public support for the South Vietnamese government is more severe now [than it was 18 months ago], and I certainly do not believe that there is general popular support for the Viet Cong in South Viet Nam. On the contrary, I think it plain, on the evidence of reliable observers from many countries, that the South Vietnamese as a people do not wish to be taken over by the Viet Cong...
...mile East African Safari, it helps if a driver knows his zoology. Cows confronted by cars act plain stupid: they have to be bumpered off the road. Sheep and goats scatter at the first toot. Elephants are cops, happily waving on traffic with their trunks. Rhinos just charge. Gazelles, zebras and wildebeests are timorous but hardheaded: if a car gets between them and their water hole, adieu auto! As for the little creatures-like 150-lb. wart hogs-a driver can only keep his fingers crossed. "They're impossible to see until you hit them," explained TIME Stringer Henry...