Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...names may change, but the issue in South African elections is always dismayingly the same-swart gevaar (black danger), wit baaskap (white bossdom), or just plain apartheid. Last week, when South Africa's 1.7 million white voters went to the polls, there was no new term for Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's racism, but both major parties were claiming to be the whitest of the white. So extremist have the nation's politics become, in fact, that Segregationist Verwoerd was even accused of being soft on blacks...
...Interstate Commerce Commission, ordinarily a pretty lethargic outfit, loudly cried crisis a couple of weeks ago. There was such a severe shortage of plain railroad boxcars that the ICC felt it necessary to issue emergency orders in an attempt to get produce and products moving again...
...there in plain glass jars...
...missed anything then, it'll surely show up here." Haskins, it turned out, did not miss much. While he yelled encouragement from the sidelines, Western's all-Negro five effectively buried Kentucky's fast break with pinpoint control of their own backboard, inspired hustling and just plain scrappy play. The final score...
...free, Too Far to Walk is not likely to be received with much enthusiasm on college campuses. Certainly Mersey's pitiless commentary on cant on the campus will miff many people, and both students and faculties will yelp over his satiric swipes at militant protestniks, world changers and plain and assorted knuckleheads. Obviously Hersey has tuned his fine ear to the contemporary campus (he finished the book shortly before his appointment as master of Yale's Pierson College). His very funny student demonstration against majors in the curriculum (ABOLISH THE MAJOR: INTELLECTUAL IRON MAIDEN!) is straight...