Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well aware that its millions come from sales of many small packages, American Home has a housewife's penchant for counting pennies. American Home has no company planes, not even company cars. In the office, Laporte likes to pad down the plain tile hallways, buttonholing executives with questions like "What have you done for us today?" Nobody ever need ask Laporte that question. At American Home board meetings, the man running the movie projector is likely to be the company's $172,000-a-year boss...
...little, and reaction among Negro leaders was mixed. CORE's associate director Roy Innis sneered: "This is a hoax on the black people." Replied the N.A.A.C.P.'s Clarence Mitchell, who lobbied for the bill: "Anyone making such statements either has not read the bill or is just plain dishonest...
Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, who was instrumental in organizing the committee, shared that confidence. Though his enthusiasm was at a low ebb several weeks ago when he declared, "To use an old Kentucky ex pression, I suppose I am just plain track sore," now Morton was ebulliently predicting that in a short time the committee would succeed in mustering broad support for Rockefeller's candidacy. Added Morton: "If we can't do it in four weeks, then we might as well give up. We'll have more delegates lined up in four weeks than...
...general who will preside over this shift is a tough, plain-speaking New Englander and onetime tank commander who could inspire aggressiveness in a begonia. Retired Army General Bruce C. Clarke, who commanded Abe Abrams in World War II, bluntly calls him "the No. 1 fighting general in the Army." Moreover, Abrams will have the advantage of knowing ARVN better than any American in Viet Nam ever has. The South Vietnamese are unlikely to be able to put much over on him, or promise what he knows they cannot deliver. And by temperament and the terms of his new assignment...
This sense of mission had its motivation in a study made by two of their professors, a study remarkable for its statistical manipulations and its quickly reached conclusions. As to the first, we respond with the words of Kram Naiwt: "There are three kinds of lies: white lies, plain lies, and statistics." As to the second, we class the two professors with those "experts" who write books on foreign countries after a two-weeks visit...