Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plain enough that anyone seeking to discredit a political initiative based on as sensitive a subject as family structure, particularly that of Negroes, will have no difficulty devising arguments. For generations, Negroes have labored under the attribution of genetic inferiority; to raise the question of a "deviant subculture" is to invite the charge of raising the same old canard of innate differences in a more respectable guise. The subject of family introduces the subject of sex, in this instance Negro sex, an issue of intense and not always acknowledged sensitivity for all parties. The subject of broken families raises...
...become a prize worth fighting for. By contrast with the gloomy 1965 meeting in Chicago that followed the Goldwater rout, the 1967 national committee gathering was turned on by the nerve-end feeling-right or wrong-that Lyndon Johnson can be beaten. The credit, in large part, goes to plain-talking, publicity-shy Ray Bliss, who took over as national G.O.P. chairman two years ago, rebuilt the demoralized party as a credible political force among rural Southerners, big-city Northerners and Negroes...
Rock V Roll. When they are not patrolling, the Marines help the villagers and try to get to know them better. In Phuoc Trach, a fishing village on the populous coastal plain below Danang, CAC protection allowed Navy Seabees to build a bridge connecting the village with the main road to the provincial capital. In the past, villagers had to sail up a Viet Cong-controlled river to reach their market-and pay plenty of fish in tribute along the way. The Phuoc Trach Marines have even taught their Vietnamese friends how to dance to rock 'n' roll...
...have sent us your men in our hour of greatest need, you have given us help when we need it most," was Ky's message to Australians. This week he carries it to New Zealand for a five-day tour. Some time after that, he has made plain, he wants to bring the same message personally...
...infallable precision, lending high rhetoric the aspect of everyday speech in such phrases as "the prairie wolves/ in lunar hilarity," moulding images sharp as her beloved snapshots in passages like: "How people used to meet!/ starved, intense, the old/ Christmas gifts saved up till spring,/ and the old plain words...