Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard was just plain sloppy at first. Two Crimson fumbles in the opening few minutes made everyone wonder if the boys had fully recovered from their upset loss to Princeton last week...
...storming Vienna and conquering two rich Austrian duchies for himself. His latest descendant is not so bold. Banished when his father Karl I was toppled from power after World War I, the current pretender to the throne of Austria-Hungary last week came home to his domains as plain...
...from a kind of generational gap that yawns wider every time Bobby Kennedy addresses a crowd. It is not simply a matter of age. As a kind of latter-day Andrew Jackson in an era that looks for a more patrician patina on its politicians, he strikes many as plain corny or simply crude. Last week, for example, while en route to Manila, the wife of an allied Prime Minister had just confided to her seat mate that she preferred bacon even to caviar when the President leaned over, speared one of her two rashers and devoured it. Then...
...sooner had Secretary of State Dean Rusk canceled a November lecture at Cornell University because of "conflicts of schedule" than a Vietnik coed fired off a letter to the Cornell Daily Sun charging that the Secretary was plain afraid of all the antiwar pickets his appearance would attract. Cornell Sophomore Richard Rusk sent the Sun a sonly note of his own. "I can assure you that the reasons for his cancellation are legitimate," wrote Richard. "Being on more intimate terms with Mr. Rusk, I think it is possible that the Secretary might muster up his courage and run the gauntlet...
...enemy soldier consents to take him prisoner, but then steals his spectacles, thus further cutting him off from the world, and forgets him. Here cowardice becomes the better part of valor. The hero takes refuge in an abandoned greenhouse near the headquarters of an enemy regiment. He sits in plain sight of the enemy soldiers on the sound theory that he cannot be convicted of trying to escape. He is right. He is ignored in his transparent house. The enemy cannot grasp this military absurdity; they do not really "see" this most visible of men, and they, of course...