Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...image is just not good," Chet Churchill said. "These bare feet and hippie garb are just plain unsanitary...
HARVARD HAS MADE it plain that it dislikes McClellan's first subpoena, and Harvard will plainly dislike future subpoenas even more. The obvious question the University faces is whether it should keep on co-operating when McClellan calls again...
That South Carolina was on trial, as well as the nine defendants, was made plain by Defense Counsel Frank Taylor, who told the jury: "Your duty is to back up these men." Referring to a SNCC organizer who had been in Orangeburg during the incident, Taylor told the jury to "show our disapproval of militants coming into South Carolina and inciting students." After less than an hour and a half, the jury decided that the highway patrolmen had only done what was expected of them, and found all nine innocent...
...Gaullizing France. True to his self-styled image as a draft candidate of the people, Poher conducted the finale of his campaign in his official residence as Senate president. It was in the Senate itself, in April, that plain-talking Alain Poher had mounted his challenge to De Gaulle and his referendum. Now, as a leading candidate to succeed De Gaulle, Poher summoned the press to announce his "plan of action...
...like it because it gives them a feeling of clubbiness. Sophisticated travelers?or those who would like to seem sophisticated?would rather be caught in the Lido nightclub in Paris than be seen carrying Fielding's Guide (some leave it in the hotel room or carry it with a plain brown wrapper). As American tourists become more experienced, as travel becomes ever more natural and casual, Fielding will have to change or lose his popularity. But right now there seems to be no shortage of neophytes, for whom the Guide is essentially written. Long after the theme has ceased...