Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interview summing up the first two years of his Administration. President Kennedy early last week stated the case in plain terms: "We don't want six or seven nuclear powers in Europe diverting their funds to nuclear power when the U.S. has got this tremendous arsenal." And the President bluntly voiced his growing impatience with British and European bellyaching about U.S. contributions to the common defense. "We are doing our part." he said. "We have our troops in Western Europe, we have six divisions, which is about a fourth of all the divisions on the Western front. They...
Cleveland entered its third week without newspapers-even though Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters, who led the walkout Nov. 29, have now negotiated a settlement with both the morning Plain Dealer and the evening Press. Irate at this early surrender, the American Newspaper Guild voted overwhelmingly to continue the strike on its own. replaced the departing Teamster picketers with Guildsmen...
...think it does us an injustice to imply that we are just plain too dumb to be elected," he said...
...bicycling only) that came with the outfit. They may still have one in jersey left over from last summer but, more likely they will follow the trend to offbeat fabrics ranging all the way from suede to satin. An occasional girl will turn up in a plain old vanilla terry-cloth jacket or playsuit, but most of her fellow travelers will sport the same fabric colored purple, cerise or tangerine. The beach-bound set will wander the islands in shirts that follow the Pucci dictum (find two colors that cannot go along quietly, put them together, and toss in five...
...story is just plain silly, and the singer feller on the sound track ("Lobo, Lobo, remember this day/Man's bullets have taken your mother away") is. even harder to take. But the film was shot in Arizona, and frame after frame is crammed with some of the most magnificent scenery on the planet. What's more, the hunting scenes-notably one in which an old wolf elegantly cuts a calf out of its herd and then leaps in savagely to slash its hamstrings-have the beauty and the horror that inevitably attend a blood rite...