Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swollen, scandalous thing sits there, an affront to political morality, economic logic and plain common sense. Truman and Eisenhower each had his turn at "the farm problem," and each left it worse than he found it. Last week the Kennedy Administration announced its farm plan...
Chicago's Colonel Henry Crown, General Dynamics' largest stockholder, and his colleagues on the executive committee plainly figure that Lewis is aggressive enough to pull together loosely organized General Dynamics. Lewis agrees. Says he crisply: "It's plain that I'll be the boss...
Died. Andrew Frank Schoeppel, 67, plain-spoken Republican U.S. Senator from Kansas who climbed local and state political rungs to the governorship in 1942, moved up to Capitol Hill in 1948, amassed an isolationist record that often put him at odds with Fellow Kansan Dwight Eisenhower; of cancer; at the Navy hospital in Bethesda...
Kopit, who majored in engineering at Harvard, maintains that "realism on the stage is just plain dull...
...himself a modest but lasting place in our literature; at his worst, whenever he gets involved in Issues or Ideas (both with capital I's), he falls flatter than Bahgh-arch, the Armenian flat bread. There is a third capitalized I that has proved fatal to Saroyan: the plain, unsimple I of his boundless...