Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that, Amiable Anastas clearly had a bill of goods to sell the U.S. Unmistakably, his was the pitch of an ever-reasonable, just-plain-folks Russian competitor bent on straightening out a few minor differences. Unquestionably, his method was part of Russia's newest device -the soft sell that began last year with the assignment of Ambassador Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov to Washington, polished thereafter with headline-catching informal talks between newly ingratiating Nikita Khrushchev and such prominent U.S. callers as Adlai Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey...
...lesser satellites, each of them blasting an impact pit in its surface. The bigger pits punched through the moon's crust and were filled with lava from the molten interior. The biggest satellite of all, about 100 miles in diameter, hit the present site of the lunar plain called Mare Imbrium-the right eye of the "man in the moon...
...found in his abolition of scores of cushions, subsidies, favors and discriminations that have concealed the realities of the French economy even from the French themselves. The sévèrité would soon be plain on every price...
...missionaries' case is short and plain: they have every moral right, as well as a good legal one, to keep the child. But Author White sympathetically presents the Indian father's case. Alagarsami, the merchant, is not an independent man but an obligated member of a tradition-bound family. Eight years before, he was uninterested in the fruit of his night out with a servant girl; since then his wife has died childless, and Alagarsami must get himself an heir or see his birthright handed to a relative. In his own mind Alagarsami is battling for Mother India...
...part to Rutherford (credited with having been first to split the atom), the world has had cause to take a long, hard, wary look at the scientist. This has impelled the publishers to reissue their Snow of yesteryear, and it can be read today not only as a good, plain narrative (Snow's later Strangers and Brothers series testifies to his skill), but as an insider's account of just how it feels to be an inmate of science's glass menagerie...