Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that all citizens were frightened during the Rochester riots is an understatement. More than that, we were just plain angry at this flagrant disregard for the responsible efforts being made to reduce racial tensions...
...rights generals in a summit conference. At the end, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins released a statement calling on Negroes "voluntarily to observe a broad curtailment, if not total moratorium, of all mass marches, mass picketing and mass demonstrations until after Election Day, next Nov. 3." The reason was plain enough: the leaders figured that by calling a halt to Negro militancy, they might stop the growth of the white backlash vote for Barry Goldwater in November. The Negroes' energy, they said, should be aimed at getting voters to register. Lyndon Johnson lost no time joining their cause, backed...
...riots blasted Harlem to the top of the news. Artist Russell Hoban walked and drove through the streets for hours to renew his impressions of Harlem before he made the first sketches for his cover painting. It is a composite of many sights he saw and of the plain people of Harlem as he thought of them, "worried and watchful." Researcher Virginia Adams pored over most of what has been written about Harlem to compile a pointed summary that supplemented the correspondents' reports. In addition to all this material, Writer Ronald Kriss read widely in James Baldwin...
...able to eat the Sandwiches there any more, because the tenth earl and great-great-great-great-grandnephew of the 18th century titleholder who invented layered lunch has renounced his lordship, like other Tory leaders. He will seek election to the House of Commons as just plain Alexander Victor Edward Paulet Montagu...
...further to the argument over the federal agencies. The Senate is already considering creation of a permanent administrative body that would serve as a watchdog over the entire regulatory process. The Republican platform singles out "power-grabbing regulatory actions" as a campaign issue, and Lyndon Johnson has made it plain that he wants the agencies to concentrate on "more cooperation with, instead of more regulation of business...