Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come in small bills at rallies, at $25-a-plate dinners, and in checks through the mail. Affluent backers pay $500 and up to join Wallace "Patriots' Clubs" and lunch with the candidate when he comes to town. In Dallas last month, Wallace dined with such "plain folk" as Mrs. Nelson Bunker Hunt, daughter-in-law of Oil Billionaire H. L. Hunt; Paul Pewitt, who has a $100 million fortune from Texas oil and Idaho potatoes; and M. H. Marr, an oilman worth about $10 million. However much money he has, the average Wallace booster is what Political Analyst Samuel...
...departments and policies has been a total failure. The only apparent "success" is an ever-expanding government collaboration which results in providing legitimacy and support for government policies. So much for "getting results." There is no need for me to preach about moral purity or evangelistic idealism ... this is plain pragmatism...
...tradition that would limit its opportunity to relate itself dynamically to the emerging 21st century." That goal was explored at a symposium of 100 educators and businessmen sponsored by the Ford Foundation, resulting in funds for construction of the college's 43 buildings on 640 acres of rolling plain six miles north of Prescott, Ariz. Though present enrollment is only 186, Prescott plans to expand to a maximum...
Loving and Flying. As with many another famous Victorian, her trouble-as well as her eventual triumph-lay in a longing for love and an excess of earnestness. Born plain Mary Anne Evans, the bright but ungainly daughter of a non-U Derbyshire estate agent, she lost her faith at 22 (in 1842) after a characteristically exhaustive study of new scientific attacks on the Scriptures. (She had attended several schools, but was largely self-educated.) When she declined to accompany her father to church, he refused to have her under the same roof and sent her away...
Working as the unpaid-and largely unknown-editor of a prestigious liberal quarterly, the Westminster Review, she fell in love with Herbert Spencer, who rejected her. The notorious apostle of ethical Darwinism was a man "as capable of loving as of flying." But when she developed a plain woman's devotion to "the ugliest man in London," a chatty, witty, sensible litterateur named George Lewes, she found herself deep in one of those parallelograms of passion that so often defined Victorian domestic life...