Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...saddened by a flagrant breach of trust of your reporter who came to my office for information and help. My first conversation with him was without the knowledge that he was your reporter. When he returned clearly stating that he was doing a story, I made it utterly plain that the only person who could speak for the Registrar was the Registrar, that the information I had given him was personal advice, and that I was not to be referred to or quoted. All three conditions have been disregarded in your story "Bureaucratic Bungling" in the CRIMSON of October...
...Southern Christian Leadership Conference, last week easily won the Democratic nomination. With the aid of white votes, he beat an old-guard white opponent. Young, 38, carried his campaign to teas with wealthy white matrons in the ornate mansions of the Northside and to revival meetings in the plain black churches of the Southwest...
...reasons for the Social Democrats' loss of strength were plain enough. Sweden's brand of state-supervised capitalism has given the country Europe's highest per capita Gross National Product in 1968 ($3,230 v. $4,305 in the U.S.), shortest factory hours (35.4 per week) and highest retirement pensions (two-thirds of peak earnings). Despite those pluses, the country has a ringingly familiar list of social complaints...
...Saigon-American troops caught a North Vietnamese force in a pincer movement in the central coastal plain yesterday, killing 128 enemy soldiers in day-long fighting...
...been pointed out by the women's liberation movement, the plain woman is continually burdened by scorn and abuse, while the even moderately attractive one is the butt of infinite routine seduction attempts. The initial pleasure of this kind of attention soon wears off when you realize that in many cases it has nothing to do with you personally; it is not your fascinating presence that has drawn the men, but rather the simple fact that you are a woman...