Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plain but brave Bolivian soldier, who has just crushed the Castro-Communist intruders, giving thus a breath of relief to the Americas. J. L. COóRDOVA ELENA SALINAS A. J. CALDERON La Paz, Bolivia...
...make up his mind. In Ankara, the government of Premier Siileyman Demirel became impatient at the delay. The Turks, whose navy maneuvered earlier in the week off the Cyprus coast, kept their armed forces in a high state of preparedness, ready to invade Cyprus and strike across the Thracian plain at Greece...
...normal, healthy digestive system. Dr. Ivan E. Danhof, of the Uni versity of Texas' Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, told the American Medical Association last week that the average amount ranges from a quart to a quart and a half a day. Some of the gas is plain air, of which a little is swallowed unconsciously, especially at meal times and in emptying the mouth of saliva. Another gas usually ingested in harmless quantities is carbon dioxide, from the bubbles in soft drinks and the soda in Scotch and soda. But the body is also a versatile gas factory...
...government made it very plain whom it favored as the new secretary general of the OAS. Galo Plaza announced his candidacy for the post immediately as he emerged from Dean Rusks' office. They had had a long talk. Among Latin Americans, Plaza is considered very Americanized. He was raised in the States, educated here, and even played football for the University of Maryland. Since the assistant secretary general and the secretary for economic and social affairs of the OAS--the number two and three posts--traditionally go to Americans, many Latins are hesitant about giving their approval...
Logistically, it was a prodigious undertaking. Mangla lies in a hot, dusty plain, some 50 miles east of Rawalpindi, Pakistan's hilly capital. A fully air-conditioned town had to be built to accommodate 2,500 American and European workers. More than 18,000 Urdu-speaking Pakistanis were trained on the job, some learning to operate the most modern sort of earth-moving equipment. A special diet had to be provided for them after the contractors found they lacked the stamina for an eight-hour day. A month before the Jhelum River was to be diverted, war broke...