Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treatment of kidney ailment by specialists from Peking, in Djakarta; Burt Lancaster, 49, 1963 Oscar nominee, with infectious hepatitis, at home in Hollywood; Edward J. ("Knocko") McCormack, 69, freewheeling Boston Democratic leader and brother of House Speaker John W. McCormack, recuperating from cancer surgery, at Veterans' Hospital, Jamaica Plain, Mass...
Added another, "It just plain isn't very exciting. Hard work, yes. But not exciting. This place has a cafeteria view of education; they just shove the knowledge in front of you and let you take what you want. It is so passive, so uninteresting, so mechanical you want to go nuts, sometimes...
...earn their U.S. grants by self-improvement deeds, along with such action as his order to knock the irresponsible government of Haiti off the U.S. aid list. Assistant Secretary Martin's sharp direction of the State Department's dealings with Latin America has helped, as has the plain talk of several able U.S. ambassadors in the hemisphere...
Papa's Delicate Condition. "Vanilla." That's what Jackie Gleason calls his latest picture and that's what it basically is: sweet enough for the kids, plain enough for the grown folks-something the whole family can swallow without collywobbles. The concoction is inexpensive and attractive, and it should leave most customers ready (if not exactly roaring) for a second helping...
...streets and cafes in St.-Germain-des-Prés and Montparnasse, where every Tom, Scott and Ezra thought of himself as a man of genius, and in some cases was. Morley Callaghan, Canadian novelist, is one of those who have survived to tell how they once saw Ernest plain...