Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this time, it was plain that the lid would not stay on much longer-if, indeed, it was still on at all. And it was natural that the White House might want the "official" version to break in the friendliest possible fashion. As it happened, Philip Graham, proprietor of Newsweek and the Washington Post, is a good Kennedy friend. Last week, just after Graham returned from a trip to Europe, his publications broke the story. It denied, on its own responsibility, that Kennedy and Durie Malcolm had ever been married...
...astonished.'' What Stuart produced from these sittings was a bust portrait on wood. The painting used for this week's cover (oil on canvas, 40¼ in. by 32 in.) is one of Stuart's famed replicas that he did from his originals for the plain purpose of making money (perpetually in financial trouble, Stuart fled England in 1787 owing ?80 for snuff, and died in 1828 leaving a pile of debts and a priceless heritage of paintings...
...hammered out slowly, over many hours of thought and discussion. When it was finally presented to the world, it had the qualities of Monroe himself: plain and solid and durable as a slab of bronze...
...stake, it was stiff upper lips all round. As the hearing was going on. Pamela was charmingly interviewing James on a pretaped TV show. "One should be able to talk to someone to whom one has been married for 22 years," sniffed Pamela. Added James: "We're just plain folks, me and my family...
...knew that layoffs were in the wind. Towering grain elevators were idled in Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin because farmers could not move their crops. Cargill Inc. shut its big soybean processing plant in Chicago, and the manager of its Omaha terminal, Ace R. Cory, muttered, "We're just plain out of business...