Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...becoming a republic (no longer recognizing Queen Elizabeth as its sovereign). If he spoke too sharply, he might increase South Africa's harsh feeling of isolation without changing its policies. His hosts had serenaded him with a rattle of teacups and surrounded him with politicians, businessmen and plain folks, all of them white...
...only into Western Europe, but through the Bosporus into Egypt and North Africa. For these reasons, new oil concessions are being granted all over the Middle East. Examples: ¶ In Yemen the American Overseas Investment Corp. was exploring a 10,000-sq.-mi. concession in the northwestern coastal plain. It had beaten out the Japanese and the Italians for Yemen rights. ¶ In the Persian Gulf sheikdom of Abu Dhabi, a subsidiary of British Petroleum Co. Ltd. and Compagnie Franchise des Petroles brought in a well that tested out at 2,400 bbl. daily...
...Louis Seltzer, leans heavily on exposeés (example: policemen eating their meals in local brothels) and promotions (example: annual parties for Clevelanders celebrating golden wedding anniversaries), occasionally irritates Scripps-Howard brass by passing up the chain's canned editorials and features. Against the Press and News, the Plain Dealer is solid and conservative, gives complete and accurate, but low-key, coverage to the news...
With the News gone, Cleveland last week buzzed with rumors that the Plain Dealer too was up for grabs, and that Chain Publisher John S. (Detroit Free Press) Knight was interested. Although the deal was denied on all sides, the reports got so much circulation that Forest City's President Graham felt it necessary to take a full-page ad in the Plain Dealer threatening to sue "any competing medium" that "continues to spread [the rumor], by printed word...
...randy as Editors W. E. Henley and T. F. Henderson allowed Robert Burns to be in the magnificent 1896-97 centenary edition of the poet's work. But Rantin' Rab enjoyed writing of houghmagandy (bed games) as much as he liked baiting the kirk, as he made plain in such poems as The Court of Equity and The Fornicator, which are usually found in the sort of editions that are passed around privately. In his new comic novel, Scots Author Linklater has done his best to lift the quarantine...