Word: plain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...believe that Governor Rockefeller should not be ruled out of consideration for the presidency-and that he should not rule himself out. He is not an active candidate and he will not seek the nomination: he has made this plain. The fact remains that he-alone with the Vice President-is one of the truly forceful and distinguished leaders on the national scene. The Republican Party as a whole therefore must look to one or the other of these men as its best hope in 1960, and it must designate the wisest choice in the July convention...
...made it plain that he was still prepared to negotiate, even offered separate bilateral talks with Khrushchev to deal with the problem of espionage. Said he: "I see no reason to use this incident to disrupt the conference...
...established by such firms as General Electric, American Can Co., Aerojet-General and Gulf Oil. The company not only urges its workers and executives to run for public office, but grants a leave of absence with continued fringe benefits for any employee elected to fulltime office. Ford has made plain that no worker need fear company reprisal for his political activities. One employee was worried because her husband planned to run on the Democratic ticket. Henry Ford phoned her personally to urge her husband to run, wished him good luck besides...
Leather Pants. Variously called Capris and toreadors, the tight, form-hugging slacks are made in everything from plain cotton ($1.95) to kid leather ($75). They ushered in the lollipop look. "My husband doesn't like them," explains a California housewife. "Every time I bend over, he says I look like a lollipop. So one day I wore a dress. First, I caught it in the car door. Then the baby poured soup in my lap. To top it all off, the grocer asked me if I were expecting another child. I've been wearing pants ever since." Next...
Faces of Tragedy. Snow sees ignorance and disdain in both camps, but it is plain that he puts heavier blame on the traditional side. "The scientists have the future in their bones: the traditional culture responds by wishing the future did not exist." The literary intellectuals, particularly, tend to talk about the tragic human condition, and such talk infuriates Snow. The individual's condition may be tragic. Snow admits ("Each of us is solitary: each of us dies alone''), but that is no reason why the "social condition" must be tragic, too. For science, after all, promises...