Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard stands accused of numerous breaches in the administration of the 93-year-old charitable trust under which it runs the Arnold Arboretum. The Arboretum was established on, and still occupies, 265 acres in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston...
...only a decade ago. Virtually every city has its Negro slums: Detroit's Brewster, Chicago's West Garfield Park, Las Vegas' West Side and Los Angeles' now notorious Watts. The rural poor cluster in the picturesque Appalachians and the Ozarks, on the Louisiana-Texas coastal plain, in the southern Piedmont and the Upper Great Lakes areas where the land is as beaten as the people...
Claims of Victory. Soon, the guns fell silent along 1,000 miles of battle ground between India and Pakistan. At Pakistani airbases, pilots stepped wear ily from their American-built Sabres and Starfighters. On the Plain of Sialkot, tank-recovery vehicles clanked up to the hulks of shattered Indian and Pakistani armor to drag them off for salvage. In New Delhi and Rawalpindi, Indians and Pakistanis began to count their dead and gild their battles of the last three weeks with claims of victory...
...armies it once could lick, the Pathet Lao now controls far less land and 600,000 fewer Laotians than it did in 1962. Last week came yet another setback. The Defense Ministry reported that the Royal Laotian army had killed 80 Communist troops in a battle north of the Plain of Jars...
Although Shaddeg does not adequately explain the Arizonan's reluctance to run, he makes plain the disastrous consequences...