Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...post-referendum speech, Papadopoulos made it plain he was in no hurry to surrender power. He reiterated the junta's favorite theme that the "goals of the revolution" must be carried out. By that, the former colonels mean that they want to purify Greek political life, immunizing the fiery-tempered Greeks against the vicious infighting that has marked their parliamentary history. Practically every Greek realizes that Papadopoulos & Co. have set themselves a next to impossible task, so there is no telling how many years the didactic colonels may persist in their mission...
...could go without being arrested. By the standards of movies, books, theater, or even late-night TV talk shows, Laugh-In's new blue cheer is decidedly inoffensive. Still, the program is only half kidding when it announces: "NBC brings you Laugh-In in a plain brown wrapper...
...puts it, because "they give a damn." The group includes 24 men, a high percentage for an elementary school. Although the enrollment is predominantly Negro, 33 teachers are white. Thirty are under 25. Many are recent graduates of Columbia, Yale, Chicago, and other blue-chip colleges. Belittling his own plain-cut clothes, Principal Lee, a Chinese American, says: "I'm a bum-but most of my teachers wear Brooks Brothers suits...
Driving through the Negev at night is like driving anywhere. The darkness obscures the rocky, barren plain that stretches out from the road, and it is impossible to see the rough peaks that rise sharply from the flat desert surface. It's just you and the highway, and the road could be the New Jersey Turnpike or a quiet strip in the country...
...plucky Czechoslovaks were using their wits and will to walk a shaky tightwire between overt compliance and covert resistance to Russia's goals. Last week, as Soviet soldiers settled into winter quarters outside Prague and other cities for what is likely to be a long occupation, it was plain that the Kremlin considered Czechoslovakia far from normalized-and was growing dangerously impatient with the country's noncooperative foot dragging...