Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...build, largely at U.S. expense, a mammoth radar station in Yorkshire intended to provide early warning of approaching Soviet missiles. When Laborite M.P.s complained that the new station would give Britain only four minutes' warning time v. 15 minutes for the U.S., Air Secretary George Ward made it plain that Britain's warning time was not the only consideration. Said he: By providing additional protection for deterrent forces in the U.S., "the station will contribute substantially to the security of the entire NATO area...
...many foreign-trade experts are convinced that the biggest problem is a plain lack of salesmanship: the U.S. businessman has simply not tried hard enough to sell his products abroad...
...King George V himself felt obliged to discard all such "German Degrees, Styles, Dignities, Titles, Honours and Appellations to Us" as the Dukes and Duchesses of Saxony and the Princes and Princesses of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. While the King became plain Windsor, Prince Louis of Battenberg became a Mountbatten (a literal translation of his German name). Until the day he died in 1921, he never forgot his humiliation. Nor did his second son, Dickie, who was a 14-year-old naval cadet at the time of his father's fall, and vowed to be First Sea Lord...
...Free." Such bathetic flights aside, it was plain that the Wayside Chapel was not the best possible place for Paar to fight for the Bill of Rights. It was equally plain that NBC had raised a fuss - perhaps in a deliberate attempt to get freewheeling, free-talking Paar into line - over a story far milder than many other things heard on previous Paar shows or elsewhere on TV. But NBC was in no mood to lose a topnotch performer - and moneymaker. All week long newspaper re porters haunted Paar's suburban home in Bronxville, recording every sob and sigh...
Chomped Cigar. In appearance, Grant was usually the antihero. He trudged through the war chomping a cigar, wearing an old slouch hat and a short blue coat without insignia. One perceptive Union officer saw him as a man with "no nonsense, no sentiment; only a plain businessman of the republic, there for the one single purpose of getting that command across the river in the shortest time possible." Grant learned by doing, and learned slowly. Leading his regiment against the Confederates for the first time, he was beset by a "cold, unreasoned sort of panic," and would have turned back...