Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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High-Strung Huddles. The President summoned half a dozen congressional leaders to the White House, quizzed them anxiously on the outlook for pushing a compulsory-arbitration measure through Congress. The legislators made it plain that they wanted to avoid those brambles, that an arbitration bill would not get through Congress without opposition, and that in any event it would be impossible to rush a bill through before the strike deadline...
...from NASA's 1964 budget request of $5.7 billion. Nearly half the cut came out of the manned space flight program, which includes the lunar landing project. The committee also voted to reduce the amount of money that NASA is permitted to shift around among its various programs-plain notice that the committee plans to exercise tighter control on NASA's spending in the future...
...shift has a secret (besides what's under it), the secret is versatility. It comes in a vast selection of fabrics -solids or prints - varying in length from several inches above the knee right down to the ankle, though the definitive summer version is apt to be cotton, plain-necked, sleeveless, and fairly short of skirt, with side slits topped by tiny bows. Priced from $2.98 to about $50.00 the shift can go practically anywhere on practically anyone. It is fine for toe-testing at the ocean's edge, or to cover up wet bathing suits for drinks...
...Holy Ireland." The exodus from Ireland, which Novelist George Moore ironically justified by calling Ireland "a fatal disease" from which "it is the plain duty of every Irishman to dissociate himself," continued after the country won its independence from Britain in 1921. As in most other newly liberated countries, the men who took over were romantic revolutionary heroes, steeped in the Otherworld but ill prepared by experience to meet the practical challenges of building a modern nation...
Women of the World is another collage from Italian Director Gualtiero Jacopetti (Mondo Cane), who pieces together snippets of film with an eye to the ironies of adjacency. On some cutting-room floor he found a covey of beauties, crones, trulls, trollops, moms, boss ladies, drabs, drudges, and just plain broads, and he has put side by side on the screen the anatomical, clinical and professional details of their lives. Women's charms include: a Japanese operation in which breasts are pumped up with liquid paraffin; a trip through a Los Angeles falsie factory; a window-shopping tour...