Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kayunga Boys' Club of Kayun-ga, Uganda, became the Kennedy Boys' Club. A West Virginia newspaper proposed changing the name of the state to Kennediana, or maybe just plain Kennedy. Some 700 families living in an Alliance for Progress housing project in Caracas, Venezuela, voted to name the project after the Yanqui President. Nevada's Democratic Senator Alan Bi ble proposed that next year's scheduled minting of 50 million silver dollars bear the J.F.K. profile...
...plain pine coffin was opened. Marina Oswald placed two rings on her dead husband's fingers and kissed him. The coffin was closed and lowered into a 6-ft.-deep vault, which weighed 2,700 lbs., was asphalt-lined and reinforced with steel bars. Said the funeral director: "It would be extremely hard for anyone to break into the grave...
...theater gives the actor a chance to play many kinds of parts. Because it has developed many fine actors, it is held in esteem, but actually it cannot compete artistically with the commercial play in which the actors are picked for their particular skills in the parts needed. In plain words, typecasting is the best way to cast a play...
...quit last season after an angry tiff with Halas)-the 20-odd formations, the constant red dogs, the complicated codes used for calling signals in the defensive huddle (example: "Blue Hairy Flag, 38, Slide Up"). This year's Bears have but seven basic formations, get their signals in plain English. "It's old-fashioned football," says Coach Halas "Just like I used to play...
...Burgess is a fantasist who has bad dreams. The Clockwork Orange (TIME, Feb. 15) concerned a police state so extreme that a teen-age rapist who talks in half-human gibberish be comes a symbol of heroic rebellion. The Wanting Seed is far less disastrous, but in its penny-plain style, it is a portrait of an anti-utopia that can be ranked with those of Orwell and Huxley...