Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grow as much wheat as they choose without any price-support help at all. Secretary Freeman has repeatedly said that the market price of wheat would fall to $1 a bushel, but his figure is a mere guess. At any rate, he says the issue before the farmers is plain and simple: $2 wheat or $1 wheat. "Two-Bit Politics." The Chicago-headquartered American Farm Bureau Federation, biggest of U.S. farmer organizations, insists that the real issue is "freedom to farm." If the Freeman plan wins, says the Farm Bureau's President Charles Shuman, the Federal Government will proceed...
...Last week the House Republican Conference issued a statement accusing Freeman of "half-truths" and "blackjack tactics." Freeman, the Republicans charged, was trying to turn the referendum into a "pressurendum." Freeman has an unforeseen ally on his side-the dry weather that has afflicted great stretches of the Great Plain this spring. Western Kansas saw its driest April since 1887. Six counties in Colorado have asked for governmental drought assistance. As some observers see it, many wheat farmers who might otherwise vote against Freeman will look at their parched fields and decide that they are going to need...
...traumatic effect on Washington, which ever since World War II has taken for granted that the U.S. and Europe have common ideals and interests. Last week, on the eve of a ministerial conference to discuss the scope and approach of the Kennedy round of tariff cuts, it was already plain that France is again determined to seek its own narrow self-interest, without regard for its Common Market partners and with every intention of blocking U.S. hopes of expanding trade with the new Europe. Indeed, as long as the Inner Six are splintered and the Seven remain Outer, there will...
...been merely sinister in more virile hands. Much of the plot is forthrightly told in the first person by Charrier's own voice-an earnest of Chabrol's continuing drift away from the Marienbadian labyrinths and the Breathless ambiguities of some of his fellow New Wave moviemakers. Plain moviegoers are going to like...
...plain is named for the scores of large, stone burial urns dotting the area, in which the ancestral ashes of the Laotian people were once deposited. Both the Pathet Lao and the neutralists avoid fighting near the jars, for Laotian tradition holds that the penalty for disturbing them is a violent and fiery retribution from the spirits within...