Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next morning at Fort Worth's Rose Hill Cemetery, Marina and her two babies, her mother-in-law and her brother-in-law Robert buried Lee Oswald in a plain pine box. Save for a group of newsmen, Secret Service agents and police officers, the rite was unattended...
...world-"a pact amongst poor friends." This pitch went over better than any other, and no doubt it will be the theme song of future Chinese programs in Africa. But for all his polychromatic pandering, Chou still found many African leaders cool toward China. Indeed, some were just plain frightened...
...league found only one "restricted" hotel, in the Adirondacks. Even in Florida and Arizona their ranks have been almost halved. Why? Legal action and educational campaigns have had a liberalizing influence, said the league's chairman, Moviemogul Dore Schary, but the main reason for the thaw is probably "plain old economics...
...also, if brutally, moved certain situations off dead center and made progress possible." To the Los Angeles Times, it was "fruitless to argue with an accomplished fact." Instead, the Times wondered what nation would next send an ambassador to Peking, and guessed Japan. Cleveland's Plain Dealer saw no point in "forever pretending that Chiang Kai-shek will some day return to the mainland. The United States is trying to perpetuate a past that will not return...
...reality of the Ruhr has just been made plain in a startling request advanced in Brussels by the region's political leaders. They asked the Common Market for economic aid. The world's greatest industrial workshop now seeks help because it is fighting to change, modernize and revitalize its whole economy...