Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason is not hard to find. Though President Rafael Donnelly's seven-man Council of State has been installed to guide the country toward democracy, it operates under a shaky truce with the still powerful military that remains from Trujillo's time. In plain language the council is afraid to anger the trigger-happy officers by searching out the killers in their ranks. Says an official of the council: "Lots of military men are implicated. You know where we would end up if we pressed too hard...
Full of skill in her own right, Actress Parker nonetheless seemed a recent graduate of an elocution school beside the quiet amplitude of her husband, his eyes full of disciplined gloom, his interpretations matter of fact, going surely but not hungrily for the passing ironies, proving that there is plain talk in the singing poets and essential lyricism in free verse...
...proudly exhibited his silver belt buckle with its legend in Spanish: "Fidel Castro for the F.L.N." Grinned Colonel Boumedienne: "That won't make the Americans happy." Contagious Guns. While the tribesmen roasted an entire sheep on a spit for lunch, Algerian horsemen charged back and forth on the plain below, rising in their saddles to fire their flintlocks in unison at the sky. The contagion spread to the F.L.N. troops on the ridges and crests. and for 20 minutes gunshots echoed in the hills. Moslem children burst into tears and some of the guests looked nervously toward the border...
...magic with his congregation is a simple matter of "plain-talking them," he says. He may discuss morals: "You can't tell me that a young fellow can go swimming with girls in those skimpy suits and keep his mind on his Sunday school teaching." Or he may deal with the state of religion: "Nobody but God really knows if true Christianity is on the upswing." Billington believes that "there's too much 'churchianity' and not enough Christianity, too much debate about fine points of theology. People want stories about how God can help in their...
Just as three heart attacks have scarcely slowed him, success has scarcely spoiled him. His plain and simple sermons attract crowds to the temple from all over northeastern Ohio. "They tell me they just like to come to hear the old man go," says Billington...