Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cleveland Plain Dealer poll last week put Saxbe six points ahead of his Dem ocratic rival, but the election could still be decided by the 16.8% of Ohio voters listed as not having made up their minds...
ONLY 24 hours before McCarthy's speech, Richard Nixon made his feelings plain: if he had to spend $50 billion, or the equivalent of two years in Vietnam, to attain "clear-cut superiority" over the Russians, by golly, we would do it. Hubert Humphrey, to his credit, believes in strategic parity and in quick, comprehensive, bilateral negotiations to head off another insane arms spiral...
...Western reader, Snow Country provides a key to the lesser-known regions of Japanese life. Particularly evocative are Kawabata's descriptions of the look of Japan. "The solid, integral shape of the mountain, taking up the whole of the evening landscape there at the end of the plain, was set off in a deep purple against the pale light of the sky." His eye for physical description is sharp. "Her skin, suggesting the newness of a freshly peeled onion or perhaps a lily bulb, was flushed faintly, even to the throat...
Within one sentence clear and plain...
...publishers were abandoning the party usually favored by a majority of them. But the G.O.P. is not worrying any more. With only three weeks left in the presidential campaign, the clear choice of the editorial pages is Richard Nixon. Not that the switch has been entirely wholehearted; the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for one, admitted that the decision was hardly "easy." But, said the paper, it had become disenchanted with Humphrey as a "man of the old order. He is campaigning on the past. Richard Nixon is the only candidate in a position to take a new course...