Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chagrin and embarrassment of his aides, Ronald Reagan over the years has displayed an uncanny, if unintentional, knack for misstating, misusing, or just plain missing the facts. In his press conference last week, the Great Communicator may have set a personal record in miscommunication. The most conspicuous gaffes...
Roosevelt was not, most certainly, a saint. Even so admiring an observer as John Gunther, drawing up a catalogue of Roosevelt's many virtues and achievements in Roosevelt in Retrospect, charged him with "dilatoriness, two-sidedness (some critics would say plain dishonesty), pettiness in some personal relationships, a cardinal lack of frankness . . . inability to say No, love of improvisation, garrulousness, amateurism, and what has been called 'cheerful vindictiveness.' " And, as Duke's James Barber bluntly puts it, "he cheated on his wife...
...take great pleasure in announcing the election of Arthur Francis Nazro of Jamaica Plain, and Edward Bowditch, Jr., of Albany, of the Sophomore class; and of Franklin Delano Roosevelt of Hyde Park, N. Y., Walter Edward Sachs of New York, and Albert Volwider de Roode of Chicago, of the Freshman class, as regular editors of the CRIMSON...
...millionaire named Joseph E. Cole stepped in a year ago to rescue the afternoon Press (circ. 305,000), which had been losing $6 million a year for its previous owner, the Scripps-Howard chain. Cole says a new design and color pictures have boosted circulation. But with the morning Plain Dealer (circ. 401,000) holding a 3-to-l edge in ad linage, the Press is still in danger...
...farms, hunting caps, lumberjack shirts, car dealerships and finance companies. It is shot-and-a-beer country, "Iron City" beer. Real boilers are made there as well, and so are quarterbacks. Western Pennsylvania has turned them out as stoic as Johnny Unitas, as extravagant as Joe Namath and as plain tough as George Blanda. Joe Montana Jr. favors all of them somewhat...