Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing undignified in "twisting," "swimming-pool antics" or "allnight parties." It's refreshing-and gives one a feeling of empathy to realize that our presidential family, which is surely versed, through birth and breeding, in propriety, fitness, decorum and dignity, is also human, vigorous, imaginative and "just plain fun," without a false sense of projecting a "godlike public image...
...Bitter Chorus. They had been slow enough to move. Weeks ago, the word in Saigon was that, before risking an uprising, the military wanted assurances of U.S. support. Officially the U.S. denied all involvements, but it was perfectly plain that the reduction of U.S. aid to Diem and Washington's public disapproval of his repressive measures against the Buddhists set the scene for the coup (see THE NATION). As the news from Saigon unfolded, it was Diem's sister-in-law, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, who provided a bitter chorus from Los Angeles, where she was winding...
...stump, Douglas-Home seemed relaxed and slip-proof. To win election to Parliament from the safe Tory seat, he raced through the glens in a fast black Humber, making dozens of plain-spoken speeches on topics ranging from winter grain prices to East-West relations. Wearing a battered tweed jacket and a jauntily angled checked-cloth cap, he fielded involved local questions with a barrage of statistics that showed he had done his homework in the hillside cottage near Comrie that became the official seat of government during the campaign. When heckling stirred an uproar in the crowd...
...Leopold went underground to become Jack Esselwein, Socialist house painter and first secretary of the Communist Party in Regina, Sask. In the old days an aspiring Mountie had to be 6 ft. tall, or better. But that was like wearing a "Kick Me" sign in the shadowy world of plain-clothes police work. Today's Mounties only have to measure an "average" 5 ft. 8 in.-and they are busily infiltrating the Montreal heroin syndicates, ingratiating themselves with boastful Canadian income tax dodgers, posing as gullible game for confidence...
...idea, jazz musicians invent slang, admen and politicans go for novelty-promising labels ("New Fab," "New Frontier"), art critics pile on prefixes and suffixes ("post-abstractionism"). But it is theology, slicing its concepts fine, that seems to need new lingo most and best knows how to create it. Plain words, knighted with a capital letter, take on reverent meanings; Greek and German syllables, in numbers from two to six, are joined and sent out to intimidate the outsider...