Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maps and aerial photographs showing our cities, our dams, our plants, our highways-indeed, our whole industrial and economic complex. We know Soviet attaches regularly collect this information. Last fall Chairman Khrushchev's train passed no more than a few hundred feet from an operational ICBM. in plain view from his window." But openness also has its advantages. It fosters self-scrutiny and public criticism and free speech-more effective restraints against corruption, inefficiency and injustice than any secret police...
...Arthur Penn, a bachelor of 74. Sir Arthur is now treasurer of the Queen Mother's household as well as Queen Elizabeth II's extra equerry and groom in waiting. Next day, in Northern Rhodesia on a royal tour of Africa, Queen Mother Elizabeth made it abundantly plain that, whatever else he may be, Sir Arthur is definitely not a bridegroom in waiting. Announced her private secretary: Reports that such a marriage is contemplated are "complete and absolute nonsense." He added: "These were Her Majesty's last words. In fact, Her Majesty used a stronger word...
...theories have ever quite fitted together to give a satisfying solution to one of science's most baffling puzzles. Now, from Professor Hannes Alfven of Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology, comes a promising explanation. To explain the solar system, Alfven says, other scientists have used plain old hydrodynamics (the behavior of fluids, including gases); if magnetohydrodynamics (the behavior of ionized gases in a magnetic field) is used instead, many things become clear...
...baseman for 1960-and as had happened before with other teams, Detroit's eye landed on Bilko, who had had a fine 1959 season with Spokane. The Tigers got Bilko for the $25,000 draft price plus a salary of $15,000. and Manager Jimmy Dykes made it plain that he was counting on Steve. In spring training, Bilko batted .304. hit four home runs and felt good: "This is my best chance ever. If I don't make it this time, I have no one to blame but myself...
Because he made his heroes ineffectual drifters, he was at first able to deceive Pravda and the party critics; but it is plain that his fools speak the truth...