Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bartlett, Florida's Spessard Holland, Wyoming's Gale McGee, Alabama's John Sparkman. "Great progressive leadership," cried Ohio's Stephen Young. This was far more than the usual reflex action to an attack on a member of the club: the Johnsonian gonfalon, it was plain to see, was moving deep into the liberal ranks...
...Cagney has to die. Best bit: a dockside rumble in which Cagney. jazzy as ever with his side arms, sputters some real far-out riffs on his revolver. Worst fault: the inconsistency of speech. Four of the featured players speak the king's English. Two of them talk plain American. Only the bit-players, picked up from the Abbey Theater and other Dublin companies, ever seem to have honestly laid lip to the Blarney stone...
...Kennedy talked. Di Salle thawed, and both agreed to meet again in the fall before making any announcement. But Kennedy's message was plain and Di Salle got it: if Mike Di Salle runs in the primary, either he must pledge himself to Kennedy or Kennedy will run against him. Said Di Salle, when he discovered that there was little else worth saying: "All right, boys. Let's go downstairs. The spaghetti's gettin' cold...
...objective is to conclude a contract that will involve no increase in the overall employment costs of the company," said Republic Steel's tough, plain-talking President Thomas Patton on TV's Meet the Press. Not only does the current contract provide high wages and benefits, contended Patton, but it also leaves plenty of room for further wage boosts through job promotions and incentive pay. Patton's proof: since contract negotiations opened just two months ago, average hourly wages have jumped from...
More serious have been the charges that Nixon is unprincipled, particularly in campaign attacks on opponents. Mazo feels that at times Nixon has "resorted to malignant innuendo"; yet he also makes it plain that Nixon has said no more than other politicians in the heat of a campaign. Possibly Nixon gets blamed more readily because the smooth precision of his speeches always suggests that he knows precisely what he is saying, while the snarls of a Harry Truman, for instance, are often ascribed to a sort of folksy hot temper. Yet Nixon has quite a temper of his own. Once...