Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After reading your article "Seeing De Gaulle Plain" [Jan. 12], and in the face of De Gaulle's public statements against U.S. foreign policy all over the world, Europeans start wondering why the U.S. does not reciprocate in kind. Why do self-respecting U.S. women buy French clothes and cosmetics for millions of dollars, and why do U.S. tourists go in masses to France leaving millions in U.S. currency so that it can be used to emasculate the U.S. economy? Only "paper tigers" or masochists offer the other cheek after one has already been bitten several times. Sometimes even...
...during a five-day tour of South Viet Nam, the Viet Cong opened fire with mortars. The incident might have been all to Percy's good as publicity, but the popular reaction was: "Any man who would take his wife into a situation like that is plain stupid." Percy protests that his wife invariably travels abroad with him and produces politically useful movies of his adventures. Besides, says he, "it never entered my head that there was any undue danger...
When the plan had taxied, everybody simply got up and walked into the 90-degree heat and headed for the military or civilian arrival areas. Waiting for baggage and immigration clearance took an hour in a plain little room bearing a welcome sign posted by Rotary International (luncheon meetings every third Tuesday, 12:30, at the Saigon Hotel, coat...
...Hogg, who announced that "the Prime Minister has for some years been aware that various false and malicious rumors have been spread concerning his personal character and integrity. He has always considered it right to treat them with the contempt they deserved." Now, said Hogg, Wilson wanted to "make plain his determination to establish the complete falsity of these rumors...
What keeps a man and his soap apart for so long? Bad but heavily significant puns. Long scatological accounts of constipation that add up to a plain case of logorrhea. Recurring signs and symbols planted like a Freudian scavenger hunt. Above all, the metaphysical pseudo-Joycean rhetoric of a sometime poet, sometime screenwriter from Hollywood ("The mind is a revolving snowflake out of the backblackward...