Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comfortable in my home with my husband, two small children and an infant, and I am not about to go to Alabama. But from the bottom of my heart I do want to thank all of the ministers, rabbis, nuns, college professors, students, and just good plain white folk who took their lives in their hands and went on my behalf...
...word from the White House to Capitol Hill was perfectly plain: Don't mess around with the Administration's new voting-rights bill, just pass it fast. Sentiment in Congress was for doing just that. But there were some doubters -and they had some points...
...requested by the Security Council, where each had a veto. Command of the combined forces would be channeled through a military staff committee, composed of officers from the Big Five. But as Russian vetoes followed one another in the Council like wolves across the steppe, it became quickly plain that this method of peace-keeping would not work. In fact, the military staff committee still exists, but its U.S. representative, Lieut. Colonel Victor de Guinzbourg, is noted mostly for his compilation of a volume entitled Wit and Wisdom of the U.N. (Sample wisdom from Japan: "A wise man is impartial...
Then 60 paddlers wearing headdresses fashioned from lions' manes ferried the pair across the flooded, reed-grown Barotse Plain. As they arrived at the Litunga's winter palace, 12,000 prostrated Barotses chanted praises to the jerky rhythm of wooden xylophones, and Kaunda promised the Litunga $4,480,000 in aid-primarily for flood control and agricultural development. That should ensure Zambia against Barotse unrest. And with all those dams going up, it might at the same time lick the longstanding crocodile problem...
...engineering. It is situated on the squishy soil of the La Brea Tar Pits, where saber-toothed tigers and Jack Benny's jokes once prowled. In fact, getting the O.K. to excavate required inspection by a team of archaeologists. They found old bones, but fortunately these were plain chicken. "If they had been dinosaur," says Museum Director Richard Brown, "we'd have taken four years longer to be here...