Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point of being nonexistent. In 1965, the new U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development decided to back ABAG's cooperative philosophy, named the embryonic outfit its regional planning agency and showered it with lucre. All told, HUD gave ABAC $1,080,000, sending checks in plain brown envelopes without prior notice, according to Truax's boss, ABAG Executive Director Warren Schmidt. For the past 13 months, Truax apparently had been treating the brown-paper bonanza as personal mail. Investigators said that he had deposited the checks-including one for $399,649-in bank accounts under various names...
Norman Mailer is a novelist of essentially the same ail-American genre, but Mailer has developed a narcissistic devotion to his own quirks of mind; Kerouac a far less talented man, nevertheless compels more respect for his dogged and humble concern to tell a plain tale and to explain himself, rather than demonstrate the wickedness or folly of others. Nor is Kerouac capable of the brutal vulgarity of a writer such as James Jones, whose books strike anyone of any sensitivity as weary, stale, flat-and profitable...
...source of allied discontent is plain. The winding 400-mile boundary is, from a Communist point of view, delightfully permeable. At its northern end, opposite Vietnam's central highlands, it runs through deep tropical jungle, uninhabited and immune to air observation. Its southern reaches, along the Mekong River, are under five feet of water during the monsoons...
...from a fight against Communism in Viet Nam. One of their reasons: it is a civil war. Some of the loudest dissenters from any U.S. military presence in Southeast Asia were the most militant interventionists when the Arab-Israeli war erupted last June. For them the U.S. responsibility was plain: it called for warships at Aqaba, for guns and planes as fast as Israel might need them...
...becomes possible to find familiar words in plain English. For example, the letters ith appear near the beginning. Guessing that this could stand for with, the analyst assumes that M = w. He tries that idea out in other places where M appears in the ciphertext. Down the line this produces the sequence with-n-nown. This suggests: with unknown, in which case J would equal u, and K would equal...