Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gone was the easy, Tom and Huck familiarity. At least in public, William Hamilton McWhorter Jordan, 34, would never again be plain old Ham, not even to Press Secretary Jody Powell, the only other man in the White House who has served so long and so closely with Jimmy Carter. Explaining Carter's wishes last week, Powell announced: "The President told the White House staff they should no longer consider Mr. Jordan as their peer and they should consider his directives as the President...
...opponents and colleagues. Yet according to a new study to be published this fall, it also had another, more surprising result: the standard version of Freud's struggles, as recounted by Freud and the Freudian historians, is heavily laced with legend, and much of the story is just plain false...
...through key parts of the President's program, including the windfall-profits tax on oil companies that is supposed to provide all the money for Carter's plans, before the legislators recess on Aug. 3 for four weeks. But by week's end they were making plain that Carter, and the nation, will have to wait. Said Louisiana's canny Russell Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which must approve the tax: "I wouldn't bet on there being $141 billion to support Carter's whole program. I'm not going...
...1890s, the daughters of a well-to-do Jewish lawyer in Moscow. Before the Revolution, Mayakovsky had courted Elsa, flouting her family's objections to the scruffy, hulking poet who had served a prison term at 16 for Bolshevik subversion. But when Elsa, who was quite plain, introduced him to her handsome married sister in 1915, Mayakovsky formed a passionate attachment to Lili that only his suicide in 1930 could terminate. After his death, these redoubtable sisters were to play key roles in the production of the Mayakovsky legend. Settling in France with Aragon, Elsa became the Russian poet...
...work, and even quoted from one of his papers. But Darwin never publicly acknowledged, let alone discharged, his debt to Blyth, and history has been no kinder. Eiseley's ex pose in no way diminishes Charles Dar win's importance, but it does help ex plain his achievement. Like other scientists who were also able to see great distances, he was standing on the shoulders of giants. -Peter Stoler