Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instrument native to the U.S., is becoming as much a part of the summer landscape as the mosquito. Here is a recital (Flop-Eared Mule, Nine Hundred Miles, Goodbye Old Booze) in various styles by four experts. On the sleeve, there is a written exposition for beginning listeners of plain and fancy picking: frailing, up-picking, two-finger, three-finger, and the virtuoso Scruggs style...
Among many Republicans, most Democrats, and nearly all foreign observers, the overriding concern is that Goldwater would bumble into a nuclear war through carelessness or plain pigheadedness. "Can you imagine what would have happened if Goldwater had been in the White House during the Cuban missile crisis?" asked an aide of Michigan Governor George Romney. The aide thereupon touched a lighted cigarette to an inflated balloon...
There were few surprises in San Francisco. But an unexpected fracas was set off by a three-page letter that was stuffed in a plain white envelope marked "Personal" and hand-carried down one floor from Candidate Bill Scranton's headquarters in the Mark Hopkins Hotel to Barry Goldwater's suite. Had the contest for the nomination been even close, that letter might have gone down as one of the worst blunders in U.S. political history. As it was, it would be remembered as little more than a fascinating footnote...
...Sheppard has much to be bitter about. In a stinging rebuke to the Cleveland press and Sheppard's trial judge, Weinman's 86-page decision termed the trial a "mockery of justice." The "inflammatory and prejudicial reporting" of all three Cleveland newspapers-the Cleveland Press, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Cleveland News (since purchased by the Press)-continually implied that Sheppard was guilty; one "cheap sob-sister editorial" in the Press, said the judge, "literally screamed" for his conviction. The papers kept running pictures of Trial Judge Edward Blythin (who was up for reelection) and gave...
...most charming Indian maiden since pretty Red Wing. And the actor who plays the mongrel-his name is Junior, and he is the son of the dog who played Old Yeller for Walt Disney-possesses a distinction rare in cine-mutts: he is a dog who is just plain...