Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barracks ballads of that day, which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die-they just fade away. And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military...
...impoverished Caribbean nation ($70 per capita income, 90% illiteracy), it was a life sentence. Since he took office in 1957, Duvalier has ruthlessly liquidated every real or suspected foe of his regime. The 5,000-man Tonton Macoute, Duvalier's plain-clothes bully boys, shake down merchants and terrorize peasants, while his militiamen engage in macabre voodoo orgies, playing on the belief of the superstitious population that Papa Doc has occult powers. Haitian exiles, arriving in the Dominican Republic at the other end of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, say that the rites have included sewing up newborn babies...
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who "would be chairman of the American Communist Party if the McCarran Act permitted it to have officers," held forth like a queen for almost two hours. She reminisced about her lifelong fight for a socialist America "in the plain simple language of the workers--no Madison Avenue terms; the bosses aren't the establishment...
...more of them than ever are doing something about it. For many U.S. corporations, the name change has become almost a symbol of growth, energy and aggressiveness. Last week Monsanto Chemical Co., which has diversified into electronics and building materials, got formal approval from its stockholders to become just plain Monsanto Co. Fairbanks Whitney, hoping to get an image with a bang from its gunmaking subsidiary, plans to rename itself Colt Industries. Riddle-Airlines, whose name has long been just that to many people, is about to switch to Airlift International Inc. Olin Mathieson is asking customers to "please, call...
...Bank, which now has little to do with corn, has simplified its name to Girard Trust Co. Many boards of directors are persuaded to drop regional or national names as their firms' international business increases; the Texas Co. adopted the name of the gas it markets, becoming just plain Texaco, and no one can blame the Cuban-American Sugar Co. for making a post-Castro change in its name to North American Sugar Industries...