Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...endurance. The thin straight wings were a model of aerodynamic cleanliness; the raked, razorlike tail added a minimum of drag. Even the landing gear was pared to the final ounce. Light bicycle-type main wheels were aided by wingtip wheels that were dropped immediately after takeoff. Between gliding and plain powered flight, Sekigawa guessed that the U-2 could stay aloft as long as nine hours on a single trip...
Sometimes, in his plain North Dakota way, Whelan had tried to persuade old Tacho to allow Nicaragua a little democracy, but then he would quickly agree with Tacho that Nicaraguans were politically too immature for much freedom. Whelan claims a little more success with Luis and Tachito. After his father's death, Tachito was bent on killing the enemies of the Somozas when Ambassador Whelan convinced his friend that this might be going too far. He also encouraged Luis to put through a law prohibiting any member of the Somoza family from succeeding him to the presidency...
...dares stand idle on the harvest plain...
...President in U.S. history has had an opposition-party Congress for so much of his tenure (three-fourths), and few have fought so doggedly and effectively against it as Dwight Eisenhower. Last week Ike was fighting - making it plain that he would fight until Congress adjourns in July against any overblown welfare-spending plans that would imperil a balanced budget. To the fight he brought an assortment of ploys and thrusts worthy of the tough and formidable politician that he has gradually become...
...underground tests-provided the Russians join in an earnest effort to perfect devices for detecting small underground bombs (TIME, April 11). Last week, the nation's top scientific authorities on nuclear detection were called before two subcommittees of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, unanimously made it plain that the black art of concealing small nuclear explosions was fast outstripping the infant science of detection...