Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem was plain to see. The key to imposing cloture lay with Southern Senators-most of them dead set against the filibustering liberals but, by tradition and principle, violently opposed to cloture. First, Mansfield tried to persuade Georgia's Richard Russell to vote for cloture. Said Russell: "I'll vote to gag the Senate when shrimps start to whistle Dixie." In the vote, Russell cast a resounding "no." But significantly, he did not try to influence his Southern Senate followers...
...roof off the Statehouse; among the convicted were a former member of the state board of corrections, a former state park director, and a former assistant state purchasing agent. Though one educated estimate placed the cost of corruption at $30 million. Griffin's comment was simply: "Nuts. Just plain nuts...
...year. She will be at Wellesley for the first semester of the coming year and will teach two courses in creative writing, one in poetry and one in the novella. After that she will go to her home in New Hampshire "for five or six months of just plain writing and thinking...
...hand to impart a royal flavor was Princess Margaret, a tear glistening in her eye as the Union Jack was hauled down for the last time. By sending the Queen's sister to the ceremony, Britain made it warmly plain that no hard feelings linger from Jamaica's abrupt rejection last year of the London-fostered West Indies Federation. Independent Jamaica has been assured a place in the Commonwealth...
Demoralized Army. In plain leatherneck language, Colonel Heinl said that the Milice Civile was becoming Haiti's primary armed force, while the constitutional army was being neglected. He noted that the national Academic Militaire had been closed for months, and that army barracks everywhere were falling into disrepair for lack of funds. "Haiti in its present circumstances cannot afford to maintain two separate armies," wrote Heinl. "The practice on the part of individual miliciens or their leaders of establishing themselves as vagrant law officers exercising police authority has had a degrading effect on the regular armed forces...