Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winds of cold-war crisis for 1961 were converging on Berlin. Russia's Nikita Khrushchev had made it plain that he intends to provoke that crisis...
Commencement oratory at big (12,000 students), burgeoning San Francisco State College was striking time-hollowed notes. "You are standing in the portal between academic life and nonacademic life," intoned President Glenn S. Dumke. Then California State Finance Director John E. Carr rose and explained in plain words just what President Dumke meant. Said Carr: "You have been generously subsidized by the citizens of California. Now you will be on the other side. I hope when your time comes to cough up taxes to pay for these things that you will do it not only willingly, but perhaps with...
Here again it is plain that the assigning of one long term paper to be handed in at the end of a course, militates against any kind of worth-while communication and instruction. Dividing the paper work through the course of the term would, incidentally, relieve the burden of the grader in reading hundreds of final examinations and term papers...
...year, the country's 2,800,000 vehicles are already served by more than 20,000 gas stations operated by eleven oil companies. To head its new subsidiary, Phillips made a shrewd choice: onetime Prime Minister (for one month in 1941) Sir Arthur Fadden, 66. A plain-talking, party-loving Queenslander who led Australia's Country Party for 17 years. "Artful Artie" Fadden retired from Parliament in 1958 to run his own accountants' firm. He plans to offer half the initial $2,000,000 share capital in Phillips' Australian company to Australian investors...
...others, are holdouts) weeks ahead of the announced publication date. All previous attempts to publish the book in the U.S. have ended in customs or post office bans, and for 26 years Cancer and the other Miller Tropic-Capricorn-have been unknown to Americans, except as tourist and G.I. plain-wrapper souvenirs of Paris...