Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Disappointments. The facts were plain and simple. Goldwater got off to a long head start, showing poorly in the primaries but piling up delegate votes against little or no opposition in state conventions. At no time in 1952 did Taft have anything approaching Goldwater's delegate strength...
...Swedes we are no longer. Russians we can never be. Therefore we must be come Finns." Finland finally proclaimed its independence in 1917, has been Finnish ever since. An earthy, engaging, moody people who have fought war after war, and always started again from the ruins, they regard sisu, plain guts, as the highest virtue. For, say Finns, "Whatever happens, we will be on the wrong side...
Psychiatrists call it "masochistic identification." What that means, in plain, simple English, is love those Mets, hate those Yankees. The Yanks have won eight pennantsin the last nine years, and things are so bad that they are giving away free tickets. The Mets, who have been playing in the National League for three years and haven't found the cellar steps yet, are packing them into Shea Stadium at the rate of 765,162 fans in their first 29 home dates, second only to the world-champion Los Angeles Dodgers...
...gone this far, can it afford not to intervene? By committing itself to a sustained air offensive on Kong Le's side, the U.S. would at best be backing a long shot. Even if the disruption of the Pathet Lao supply lines permitted Kong Le to regain the Plain, it would only buy time and return the whole Laotian equation to where it was before-admittedly with the significant difference that the U.S. would have demonstrated its readiness to take a firm stand...
...they reconnoiter a contingent of bawds house-mothered by Joan Blondell and infiltrated by Stella Stevens, a Confederate spy. As an anti-hero of such indolent disposition that he lets a lady in distress fend off a villain singlehandedly, Ford appears bemused when he should be amusing. Douglas looks plain uncomfortable, and well he might. He gets caught under collapsing tents, heads a sandy downhill charge sitting on skis made from barrel staves, finally leads his men-all wearing nothing but droopy long underwear-in a rampageous free-for-all with renegades who are trying to highjack a shipment...