Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record the governors perfunctorily voted to cooperate in setting up such a task force, but in cynical asides and "don't-quote-me" comments the majority made perfectly plain their belief -and in several cases their hope-that nothing much would ever come of the idea...
...effort to instigate action to that end." Some of the loudest outcries came from newspapers that had championed McCarthy; they ranged from the Omaha World-Herald's gibe that it is now "all right to teach that the White House should be blown up," to the Cleveland Plain Dealer's invitation: "Well, comrades, you've got what you wanted. The Supreme Court has handed it to you on a platter. Come...
...equally conservative Cleveland News, though owned by the Plain Dealer's publishers, applauded the court's decisions as upholding "the individual rights on which the American system is based." The Southern press, already convinced by the desegregation decision that the Supreme Court is heeding social and political expediency rather than legal precedent, spoke almost solidly against the latest decision, abounding in comments that amounted to: "We told...
...awesomely detailed planning that went into operation Neptune-Overlord. Historian Morison's special interest is the naval support, from the ferrying job to naval gunfire, but he necessarily refights much of the battle for the beaches -and does it with freshness and sharp detail. What seems plain is that the Germans ensured Allied success by a series of blunders: they concluded that the weather was not right for an invasion when it came; they canceled a routine E-boat patrol that might have discovered the coming attack; and they swallowed the carefully planted notion that General Patton was waiting...
With the exceptions of Brown, and Misses Kalkhurst and Linch, all have participated in previous Players productions according to Claman. Brown had the lead in the "Tree on the Plain". Miss Kalkhurst has sung Gilbert and Sullivan with the Provincetown Players, and Miss Linch "proved herself an excellent singer in Menotti's 'Medium'," he added...