Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman...
...prose, a writer is in the position of "the poor devil of a screenwriter," in Fitzgerald's short story, Financing Finnegan. After trying to adapt "a distinguished author's novel," he says, "it's all beautiful when you read it, but when you write it down plain it's like a week in the nuthouse...
Nearly 65 million voters went to the polls last week to elect new legislatures in five of India's states. The key election was in Uttar Pradesh, whose 425-member state legislature is the largest in the nation. Uttar Pradesh - meaning northern plain - has the biggest population (more than 95 million) of any of the 21 states and the largest delegation (85 of the 524 members) in the lower house of the national Parliament. It also happens to be the home state of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, as it was for India's two previous Prime Ministers. Thus...
...person who will not be reading Merle Miller's current bestseller Plain Speaking is Margaret Truman Daniel. Annoyed by Miller's publication of his conversations with her father, the late President Harry Truman, taped in 1961-62, Margaret has ignored the complimentary copy sent her by the publishers. Talking to Knight Newspapers Columnist Vera Glaser last week, Margaret said: "I don't like people riding my coattails," a reference to her own bestseller Harry S. Truman, which appeared in 1972. Her main objection: "Dad wrote Plain Speaking, not Miller. This man has just taken tapes and strung...
...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller...