Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have great faith in our military, but I think more of the decisions should be made by the military." Republican Clifford Hansen of Wyoming saw the war as a clear-cut responsibility. "We have to discharge our duty there, and will," he declared. "Our duty is plain-to continue to support the objective of stopping Communist aggression, and to safeguard the freedom and independence of South Viet Nam. We should continue to support the President as long as he holds to those objectives." Nonetheless, added Hansen, people in Wyoming also are "deeply concerned" about the political conduct...
...Frank Hummert, 79, first of broadcasting's big-time packagers who in the 1930s bought as much as $9,000,000 of air time annually, and, along with wife Anne, had as many as 20 shows going in the same week, including such interminable soap operas as Just Plain Bill (25 years) and The Romance of Helen Trent (27 years); of pneumonia; in Manhattan on March...
Another step might be to restrucure
What had happened seemed perfectly plain. Rather than cut his spending, the consumer simply dipped into his savings. In the first quarter, the national savings rate dropped from 5.5% of personal income to 4.8%, which alone put some $3 billion into consumption...
...Gowers, 85, British civil servant, who served for 60 years in every capacity from Lloyd George's secretary to London civil defense chief in World War II, known in the U.S. as the rhetorician who slew the dragon of verbosity, first with his bestselling plea for simple language, Plain Words (1954), and last year for his revision of the classic Fowler's Modern English Usage, which preserves its original charm; of cancer; in Midhurst, Sussex...