Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clatter. A dozen Air Force F-105 Thunderchiefs highballed down the main line from the northeast and blasted the rail yards, then continued on over Hanoi, bomb racks empty, before wheeling for home. About the same time, some 20 Navy planes swooped in from the southeast, off their carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin, to raze the used-car lot; and then headed back without passing over the city...
...British, who sponsored the resolution in the first place, had no such qualms. Having displayed their outraged morality by calling for sanctions, their main concern was to steer the Security Council away from any action that would lead to an economic confrontation with South Africa, Britain's fourth largest customer and main supplier of gold. The U.S. went along with Britain. Hoping that even a leaky embargo might somehow bring Rhodesia to its senses, it voted with the majority to approve the resolution...
During his year in office, President Ferdinand Marcos has leveled a two-pronged attack on the troublesome pockets of Huk rebellion that still persist in parts of central Luzon more than a decade after the collapse of the main Communist insurgency. One weapon is a social-reform program that aims to undercut the Huks by building schools and hospitals, repairing wells and roads, and providing land-improvement loans to farmers. The other is the cold steel and hot bullets of a 3,800-man military force under Colonel Rafael Ileto, 46, who was named last winter to hunt down...
Pumpkins & Artichokes. A reminder that the birth of Christ has fruitfulness for one of its main themes is The Holy Family, a collaboration between Jan Bruegel ("the Velvet Bruegel," to distinguish him from his father, Pieter) and a virtually anonymous fellow Fleming, Pieter van Avont. With pagan profusion, Bruegel lavished his brushwork on the garlands shaped like an M in homage to the Virgin. Incorporated into the salady festoon are samples of all that the hothouses, orangeries and private zoos of Flemish aristocracy could offer. Roses and carnations are mixed with more pungent garlics, cabbages and peppers; common wheat...
...main concern is "not to be totally bracketed" and not to repeat herself. "Strangely enough," she says, "singing has never been particularly easy for me. Particularly singing the way I want to. I have not found the easy, enjoyable way of singing. I think I have a fear of finding it, probably from having a little too much of singing when I was young. In the back of my mind and the bottom of my heart I want to lick that...