Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson's order, McNamara also announced plans to trim civilian employment by the Defense Department, both in the U.S. and abroad, by another 25,000 before July 1, 1965. And at week's end he made it plain that there was more coming. Said McNamara: "We have just scratched the surface...
Private Yalu. The helicopter work requires steady nerves. One armed Huey escorting a supply chopper at an outpost on the Plain of Reeds west of Saigon attacked a machine-gun nest that had opened fire. Just before one rocket was dropped, it was apparently struck by a sniper's bullet and blew up, shattering the plane's Plexiglas windows; the gunner and the crew chief suffered superficial but bloody face wounds. The dialogue over the intercom betrayed no panic: "Was a rocket blew up, wasn't it?" "It was somethin'." "You O.K., O'Shea?" "Roger...
...participants in Radcliffe's voluntary athletic program tend to think themselves intellectual and attractive, while participants classify themselves as "all-American" but "plain Jane," Mrs. Barbara B. Pillinger, sports instructor at Radcliffe, said yesterday...
Britain's Science Minister, the former Lord Hailsham, who renounced his viscountcy in order to run for Parliament, last week also lost his unofficial title as the Tories' champion vote getter. As plain Quintin Hogg, he won a seat in the Commons from London's solidly Conservative St. Marylebone (pronounced Marrerbun), a well-to-do residential district that encompasses Lord's-the Yankee Stadium of cricket-as well as medicine's Harley Street, Elizabeth Barrett's Wimpole Street and Sherlock Holmes's Baker Street. However, Hogg carried the constituency with only...
...Dilemma. Inonu and his People's Republican Party inaugurated overdue reforms, but these did not necessarily make him popular. Bureaucrats were angered by his campaign against waste. Businessmen and big landowners were incensed by new schemes to make them pay taxes. Plain consumers were mad at the attempt to put government monopolies on a profit-making basis, which raised prices. Peasants, who still would rather have new mosques than new schools, hankered for the old days when Menderes built 8,000 village shrines...