Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing as a writer) and later, when he and his future wife Suzanne moved to the southern part of the country, to hide weapons. He earned the Croix de Guerre for exploits that were not in his nature; he once hid grenades and dynamite on his front porch, in plain sight, because he was afraid they'd go off inside...
Very soon they would find it in plain sight. It was race. In 1956, one year after dispatching troops to integrate the schools in Little Rock, Arkansas, Eisenhower won 40% of the black vote. But by 1960, despite the civil rights plank agreed to at the Rockefeller meeting, Nixon was already subtly bidding to the white, conservative South. During the campaign, when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed in Atlanta, Nixon resisted advice to make a supportive phone call to King's wife Coretta. A brief call from Kennedy, made at the urging of his advisers, was enough...
...much salesmanship and too much smooth-talking, Bob Dole is a plain-spoken man," Powell said. "A man of strength, maturity and integrity. He is a man who can bring trust back to government and bring Americans together again...
...plausibly live" broadcasts and virtual-reality competitions and an Olympic Experience store, the highlights of the first interactive Games were plain, old-fashioned human interactions. Bagpipes played on Peachtree Street, and fans learned a new lexicon in which misters are not just gentlemen in Georgia and ticket-holders are made of plastic. The effortlessly graceful Marie-Jose Perec showed that she was a true champion when her bronzed rival in the 400 m, Falilat Ogunkoya, teared up as she thought of the mother she had just lost and Perec warmly hugged her (while a volunteer fetched a Kleenex). Japanese said...
...Several plain-clothed security agents accompanied the Clintons throughout...