Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peace" advocates for a softening of U.S. policy in Viet Nam finally got a hard, straight reply. It came from Secretary of State Dean Rusk, normally a man given to the soft language of diplomats. Addressing a Washington meeting of the American Society of International Law, Rusk unsheathed some plain talk and slashed away with unerring accuracy and logic at the Johnson Administration's critics...
...Purpose of Law. "I continue to hear and see nonsense about the "I sometimes wonder at the gullibility of educated men and the stubborn disregard of plain facts by men who are supposed to be helping our young to learn-especially to learn how to think...
Before his brief visit with Johnson, Dean Rusk and other Administration officials, Wilson stopped off in New York for some plain talk to what he once called the "gnomes"-the world financiers. Assembled by the Economic Club of New York at the Waldorf, they got a Yorkshireman's earful. Wilson began by ribbing those "who have backed with good money" their belief that Britain would be forced to devalue the pound and who are now "licking their wounds, as I warned them they would." He added the neatly cynical point that if he had intended to devalue the pound...
...rock-'n'-roll acts on the bill, but a 39-year-old nerve end who goes by the name of Soupy Sales. As a comedian, he is hardly believable even when seen: a pastiche nut in kook's clothing, whose act wanders in and out of plain idiocy, with every tired old slapstick gag in the joke book thrown in free. Among other things, he throws pies. And his fans were right there with him, saluting their hero with salvos of everything from teddy bears to a training...
...recently exposed an undergraduate counterfeiting ring so successfully, that the Chief had promoted him to special plain-clothes man, a position created just for Biff. Now as he strolled along, disguised as Kevin Stoddard Heath '61, a third year graduate student in English, he eyed everything around him as if it might bear close inspection...