Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...annual farm-program battle-so vital to farmers, so incomprehensible to everyone else-will be fought this year not on the Hill but on the hustings. President Kennedy made that plain in a remarkably unambitious agricultural message to Congress: in general, he asked for hold-the-line legislation to continue programs already in effect. Under those programs, the taxpayers' 1962 investment in farm surpluses reached $7.7 billion. This was an increase of a mere $95 million over the previous year, a pretty good record in the scandalous history of U.S. farm programs...
...plain that the Code forced a decision on which side was right in the prisoner wrangle. It was a clear decision. Your readers should know, I think, that before the most expert, informed, and supposedly impartial body that the government could muster, the views of Biderman and those who supported them...
...things, then are herded back on board to weigh anchor. Hotels and restaurateurs are hopefully expecting the cruise ships to begin two-and three-day layovers, at which time the food at at least one restaurant will veer from the ratatouille nicoise and péches cardinales to the plain meat and potatoes that are said to be what tourists want...
Sodom and Gomorrah. Salt was the wealth of the "cities of the plain," and salty was their reputation. "God gave them up," St. Paul says, "unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another." To a moviemaker, the subject presents certain problems of visualization. But Producer Goffredo Lombardo, one of Italy's mightiest cinemagnates, is no man to be daunted by difficulties. De Luxe Color, cast of thousands, budget...
...mushroom-shaped cloud with a massive fireball rose 12,000 ft. in the air. In the city beneath, buildings of all sizes and materials were flattened to a charred plain. It was impossible to tell where streets had been. People vanished without a trace. Others became black fleshless bones protruding from ruins. This happened not in 1945 but in 1917-in Halifax, N.S. It was the largest man-made explosion before Hiroshima...