Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impersonal telephone is an ideal way to "put a mantle of Christianity" over the lonely crowd of the modern city. "Half of Sydney's population has lost all contact with the church," he says. "The problems emerging from the city cover the whole gamut of human need, from plain loneliness to suicidal despair." Since the Centre opened, the switchboard has taken more than 15,000 calls-including 90 from people who were threatening suicide. "We haven't lost one of them," says the Centre's director, Peter Stokes...
...Enough." Sloan makes it plain that he holds strictly oldfashioned, lean-hound-dog notions about how to run a company. "The final act of business judgment is intuitive," he says, and "no organization is sounder than the men who run it." He makes clear his belief that the chief responsibility of an executive is to make decisions-even at the risk of making wrong ones...
Campaigning in a parliamentary by-election, Mrs. Bandaranaike ventured into the countryside, where she had once been a virtual mother image. Now, angered by the acute textile shortage that grips the nation, villagers greeted her by appearing in plain breechcloth instead of their usual sarongs and saris. When the votes were counted last week, the government candidate ran a poor third, reducing her bitterly divided Sri Lanka Freedom Party to 77 seats in the 157-member Parliament. To stay in power, the Prime Minister-who is also her own Minister of Defense, Foreign Affairs and Information-has increasingly relied...
...Oswald was alleged to have said, at the very most, that she saw something in a blanket that could have been a rifle. However, it soon became plain that the Secret Service "leak" was itself absolutely inaccurate...
...High Dedication, Kwame Nkrumah, is often called "The Aweful" by Ghana's rapturous, government-controlled press. To many of his nation's 7,000,000 people, however, The Aweful is just plain awful. Since 1956 Nkrumah has survived four assassination attempts by political foes angered by his dictatorial ways. But though 16 innocent bystanders were killed in the various efforts. Osagyefo (The Redeemer) always escaped unharmed...