Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today the cold-war scales no longer appear to be teetering in such terrible balance. That missile gap proved to be imaginary. Soviet failures in agriculture made it plain that Russia lags far behind the U.S. in overall economic performance. Even more devastating to Communism's prestige as an economic system was the economic disintegration in Red China that became evident in 1961, with widespread famine and declining industrial output, despite the government's merciless mobilization of people and resources. Communist China's economic disasters seemed all the more glaring in contrast with the prosperity of such...
...Bricker and his Amendment, Eisenhower waxed especially splenetic: at a Cabinet meeting in early April, 1953, "the President, listening to the latest accounts of trying to appease Bricker, cried in anguish, 'I'm so sick of this I could scream. The whole damn thing is senseless and plain damaging to the prestige of the United States. We talk about the French not being able to govern themselves--and we sit here wrestling with a Bricker Amendment.'" (Italics D.D.E...
...invitation of PBH, more than 500 kids came to the University Saturday for a day of just plain fun. Boat rides on the Charles, free lunch at PBH, movies at Lowell Lecture Hall, tours of the CRIMSON and a visit with the CRIMSON's pet mouse, Andrew, highlighlighted a day which also included an Olympia at Soldiers Field, a trip to the top of Holyoke Center, and swimming...
...market, to outsell the makers of traditional British toffee for the first time. Ads for chocolates look like U.S. cigarette commercials; the bosomy blonde, blossoming bower and babbling brook that spell menthol smokes for conditioned U.S. audiences are in England frequently a backdrop for a chocolate bar. "I like plain, simple things," coos one unidentified model in the ads. "Plain chinchillas. Simple sables. And plain chocolate." This kind of talk seems to suit plain old Cadbury's and Rowntree's, both of which were founded by devout Quakers. Cadbury Boss Paul Cadbury, 67, is so scrupulous that...
...heads down to West Point for a crucial game with the Cadets today, and then faces Brown in Providence tomorrow. The Crimson seems to have developed a peculiar habit this year: it trounces strong teams and either loses or just ekes out a win over weak ones. That's plain silly...