Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...setting out on that course that has brought us waist deep in the big muddy. It is this knowledge, this complicity if you will, that requires of many of us restraint in a situation that gives to others the utmost play to the powers of invective and contempt, the plain fact being that if these men got us into the present situation, who are we to say we would have done better...
...Boston-Charlestown candidates who see Boston ideally as a collection of isolated neighborhoods governed by bulky inbred, slow-moving city bureaucracy. Similar in outlook, with minor idiosyncratic variations, are School Committee member John "Make Boston first, but first make Boston safe" McDonough, State Senator Stephen C. Davenport (D-Jamaica Plain...
...under outright Viet Cong control or in sharply contested areas at the beginning of 1965). A telling piece of evidence is the flight of more than 1,000,000 South Vietnamese to the cities in the past year. Whatever their reasons-war-weariness, the lure of jobs or plain fear of the guerrillas-their exodus has markedly reduced the Viet Cong's rural base...
...sort of jet plain Jane that goes by the name of air bus may soon become a hot new piece of airline equipment. The concept-a subsonic job with double the passenger capacity of jets currently flying short-and medium-range runs-has been in the talking stage in both the U.S. and Europe for over two years. Now Lockheed Aircraft Corp. plans a 600-m.p.h., $15.6 million model which, if it draws enough orders, could go into production as early as next spring...
...Brontë sisters, who flowered briefly in England during the 1840s with strange, powerful novels and poetry. Charlotte was shy and ugly, proud and ambitious. Her three novels, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette, are all switches on the old Cinderella theme: the rejected girl is not only poor but plain; her Byronic hero must see not only through the rags but also through the flesh itself to her spiritual beauty...