Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week it became perfectly plain that the Soviet autobahn harassment was no mere junior officer's misunderstanding. The results, if not a hell of a crisis, were at least a touchy 41 hours and an argument that remains dangerously unresolved. As a Berlin-bound U.S. convoy rumbled into East Germany at 9 one morning, Russian officers at the Marienborn checkpoint refused to let it pass and threw up a blockade of armored personnel carriers and tractor-trailers. It was the fourth such incident in a month along the 110-mile autobahn, and, as Premier Khrushchev told a group...
Well, it has indeed been a tedious Senate year. But Dodd's outburst was most unclubby, and his victims had to answer him when they got there-which was next day. An exchange of insults is rare in the Senate these days, and it was plain that there has been some decline in the art of invective...
Either they had forgotten or been detained (which ought to strike even Julie as implausible) or they had been plain-lying, and then why would they lie? If she were lazy or frightened enough, she just might accept the first explanation, hollow as it would sound. She might avoid the real problem (why did they lie?) as lesser people than she avoid so much by not seeing the Negro. And she might avoid it indefinitely if whatever she were running from in the North were sufficiently terrible, end up lying blatantly to herself and only step up the volume...
...early June this year, a troop of plain-skirted, work-shirted college students pitched up in pecan-milling, cotton-ginning, very segregated Albany, Georgia, to make the revolution. There was a mass meeting soon after their arrival, and they were introduced to the other people as "friends who feel so deeply that segregation is a blot on our land that they have come down to help us destroy it." In the amen corner, old Mrs. Jones nodded her gray head beneath its round, straight hat, admiring, grave and grateful as if before a work of God: "Sacrificin' their summers...
...psychedelic drug scandal has come one gone without shaking the faith of a small but dedicated segment of the community in plain old marijuana. Cambridge does not have a drug problem. It does, however, harbor a very small sub-culture that regards cannabis as little less than a necessity. These people are not addicts, because marijuana, or "pot" as it is better known by devotees and would-be hipsters ("weed," "grass" and less printable names are also used), does not cause addiction. Still, a few local residents would agree with the young man who declared passionately. "I love...