Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nuts. Geese and other birds are heading south as much as a month earlier than usual. To add to the forbidding configuration, the forward end of the woolly bear caterpillar is ominously darker this season. For legions of hunters, woodsmen and students of weather arcana, the evidence is plain-a harsh winter lies ahead. The omens, they warn, are all but unanimous: animal fur is thicker, the perch are running deeper, and the pine tree is unusually laden with seeds. Linwood Rideout of Bowdoinham, Me., a hunting guide for 40 years, gauges the se verity of the winter to come...
...Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. But Brezhnev was expected not to try to crowd Ford in their first meeting, only to take his measure. The Soviet leader may indeed find that he gets along better personally with Ford than he did with Nixon, for the two leaders are both plain-speaking extraverts and outdoorsmen...
...then take the 58-page agreement back to their local headquarters, where it will be explained in great detail to members before they vote. The union hopes to distribute a copy of the contract to each miner for study, and Miller has insisted that the agreement be written in plain language...
...here in Washington," he told TIME Correspondent Mark Sullivan. "I would prefer being down in the coal fields with the membership." He lives in a simple bachelor apartment in the capital, returning on weekends to the Cabin Creek hamlet of Ohley. His wife Virginia remains there in a tiny, plain frame house on an old road near the creek. The Millers have two children, Larry, 22, an electronics technician, and Vicki, 20, a student. Some day Miller intends to move U.M.W. headquarters into coal country so members can drop...
...about time he howled," he says. "But we're not radicals just because we're tired of being sold out and passed by." Above all, Miller's voice rings with a keen and painfully won knowledge of the workingman. This knowledge, along with a plain-spoken but tough style, made the tireless Miller a formidable negotiator. As he remarked, after one sharp exchange in the last days of the bargaining: "I know. I was there in the mines. I know what it's like...