Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drenching rain and sweltering sunshine, they jammed Yankee Stadium. They were as plain-faced average as any baseball crowd, but to Witnesses the show was a kind of preview of the Kingdom they expect momentarily, when 144,000 of them will run heaven and the rest will inherit a purged earth to enjoy the everlasting life. At second base a speaker's platform slowly revolved, surrounded by banks of flowers and five umbrella-shaded clusters of chairs for notables. For six days, Witness leaders expounded the faith over 192 loudspeakers, drenching every cranny of the stadium with inspirational sound...
Trembling only slightly, Chief Counsel Ashbrook Bryant looked over the upper rims of his glasses into the robin's-egg eyes of the witness, and asked: "In plain words, what happened...
Twin Targets. Meeting in Washington with industry spokesmen and Congressmen from textile states, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs George W. Ball made it plain that the Administration had no intention whatever of putting unilateral U.S. quotas on imports of foreign cloth. Instead, the U.S. was trying to work a squeeze play...
...such lapses of logic. Whether he is blasting William Faulkner for his ambiguous stand on the Negro problem or interviewing Swedish Movie Director Ingmar Bergman, Author Baldwin writes with grace and insight. His accounts of trips to two Southern cities are balanced and perceptive. He also makes it plain that whites who try to get into the castle of the black man's skin are tolerated at best. Says Baldwin of his friend Norman Mailer: "They thought he was a real sweet ofay* cat but a little frantic...
...smell hay or feel it in the dark and tell whether horses will like it"), waste none of it on losing nags (his pet phrase: "Trade'm away for a dog and then shoot the dog"). Always doing just a little bit better than his rivals, Plain Ben Jones built Calumet into the nation's dominant stable, and in 1947, when $100,000 stakes races were still a rarity, he was the first to win more than $1,000,000 in purses. "It's like running a grocery store," he said. "I love to hear that cash...