Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which has tended to open its cold war purse strings in areas where it was scared rather than where it was confident, Houphouet-Boigny's inference is plain: the West would do well to watch -and encourage-Africa's quiet ones...
...wild, wondrous fish and game, as well as what Author Alan Moorehead calls "a certain exhilaration . . . The simple and perhaps childish pleasure of knowing that no one probably had passed this way before, and that no other human eyes had seen these particular animals roaming across the plain ... It was the sort of thing that skiers feel when they break new snow in the mountains, or sailors in a small boat in a remote...
...jury," Pete Seeger sang, and the more than 1,000 students who Sanders delivered an impassioned verdict of approval. As expected, sprinkled strong doses of politics throughout the evening of love, work, just-plain-nonsense songs, and his audience couldn't get enough, bringing the controversial singer for three encore sessions with standing ovations. Seeger claimed afterwards he had received many enthusiastic receptions by large groups, "but never one like this...
...nations on earth have as cliched a relationship as do Canada and the United States. Even Canada's complaints are frequently endless echoes of the same old hat--excessive U.S. business domination, cultural influence, free wheat dumped on potential Canadian markets, and just plain policy dictates...
...Navy is just plain strong" moaned coach Harvey Love. The scene was the Newell Boathouse and his heavyweight crew had just been soundly beaten by a length and a half in the twenty-fourth Adams Cup race...