Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called upon to cover are as fascinating, as exhausting, as much fun -and as important-as presidential politics. Last week, as the 1964 presidential season opened in earnest, TIME reporters fanned out across the country following candidates and prospective candidates, quizzing professional politicians and talking to just plain voters. They found that 17 months before the next presidential election, the country is unusually involved in the game of candidate watching...
...understand correctly, Mr. Baldwin does not like liberals. Well, I have news for him. There are thousands of radicals, liberals and just plain, ordinary white people in the United States who are people of good heart and have none of these prejudices he has taken his stake of land...
...boys have been retired. And Tommy Kuchel, 52, a lawyer by training, looms on California's Republican landscape like a lone tree on an arid plain. His talent for winning elections has made him the No. 1 Republican of the nation's most populous state. Nine times he has run for public office-assemblyman, state senator, state controller, U.S. Senator-and he has yet to lose a race. Last year, when Pat Brown trounced Nixon and Democrats won nearly every statewide contest in California, Kuchel retained his Senate seat by a landslide margin of 728,000 votes...
...when it is carried out with humanity, sangfroid, tact and courtesy, with unrelenting care for the respect of human beings. This requires not a little urbanity in relations with the public." Will the oldest constabulary in the Western world mend its ways? One man on a beat had a plain reply: "Toi, méle toi de tes oignons [Mind your own onions...
...their business was to save souls as quickly and as widely as possible." Evangelical anti-intellectualism reached its zenith in the revivalist Billy Sunday, who hated learning like hellfire. "What do I care," he scoffed, "if some little dibbly-dibbly preacher goes tibbly-tibbling around because I use plain Anglo-Saxon words? Jesus was no dough-faced, lick-spittle proposition. Jesus was the greatest scrapper that ever lived...