Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberal, though perhaps only slightly so, than the man he is replacing: Justice Tom Clark, 67, who retired last week after 18 years on the Supreme Court bench to avoid any semblance of conflict of interest now that his son Ramsey is U.S. Attorney General. Justice Clark, an undogmatic, plain-talking jurist, generally supported the court's civil rights decisions, but tended to side with the conservatives in cases such as Escobedo and Miranda, where the rights of accused criminals were involved...
Down with Darkness. Even then, the police did not take kindly to the prospect of having a bunch of women tell them how to run their business. Crusade Coordinator Moore and a co-worker camped at police headquarters for 48 hours, explaining in plain language at every roll call that they were there to help, not hinder. They proved their point by using the News to lobby for -and help get-raises for patrolmen. As the women rode along in squad cars for full eight-hour shifts, their determination helped win over the cops...
Whether King Hussein in Jordan and the Baathist regime in Syria can do as well in the wake of disaster remains to be seen. Hussein, unshaven and haggard in battle dress after three days without sleep, made his own public reckoning. But it was the plain speaking of a candid and courageous man. Israel had won "with overwhelming strength," he said, adding, his eyes glistening, "I hope people all over the world will recognize the efforts this country made to defend its soil...
...eggs are all coming from the drawing board of Pascal Häusermann, 30, a Swiss architect for whom the laying of ovals is not a stunt but just plain sense. For one thing, egg shapes distribute stresses equally, which means that the chicken-wire forms can be covered by a shell of concrete as thin as two inches. For another, the construction is so simple that a Häusermann house can be completed in two months, cost as little as $12,000. Most important, perhaps, is Häusermann's conviction that "the mistake of modern architects...
...findings reported in the Lancet by three research groups go far to ex plain another mystery of penicillin -why it is so much less likely to cause severe reactions when taken by mouth than when injected. It seems that much of the protein impurity is destroyed - digested, in effect - in the alimentary tract before it can get into the bloodstream...