Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Overshadowing all else is the question of Johnson's approach to the Communist bloc and the related issues of Cuba and Berlin. Moscow's first reaction to Kennedy's death was one of near panic, caused in part by plain ignorance of Johnson's views, in part by fear that the association of Kennedy's accused assassin with far-left causes would touch off a violent reaction in the U.S. and freeze the tentative thaw that Kennedy was encouraging. Anxious to size up Johnson in a face-to-face meeting, the Russians have already begun...
...suspicion that the whole durn thing might be some kind of a trick. To help Garner feel at home off the range, Remick comes on as a clotheshorse. Though her head is supposedly full of Universal Widget, she wears Norman Norell originals and talks ersatz girl-talk with a plain little roommate in a plush little flat that looks as though Doris Day had just moved out of it. Everything is untouched...
...sides of the packed House, the Prime Minister rose, nervously shuffled his notes and placed them neatly on the dispatch box in front of him. "It's been twelve years since I last spoke in this House," he began.* In the next few minutes it became all too plain that the cozier, clubbish style of the House of Lords had blunted Douglas-Home's debating thrust, and his supporters missed his usual pungent wit. After a long, meandering preamble, he launched into a lackluster exposition of ambitious government policies for the coming year. "The formula," said he flatly...
...streets ("Games."). All these themes could be powerfully interpreted in dance, but McKayle's choreography was weak. He seemed to rely on, rather than dominate, the attendant mime and singing. Instead of the dance patterns the viewer remembers the "Two little babies lyin' in bed; one plain sick, the other plain dead. Called the doctor, the doctor said: give them babies some shortnen' bread...
...combined in his most famous work, The Souls of Black Folk. When this small book appeared in 1903 it had an enormous impact on Negroes. In the words of Langston Hughes, The Souls of Black Folk "was like a Bible to thousands of Negro students, writers, intellectuals, and just plain ordinary people...