Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Laos was described by Defense Secretary Elliot Richardson as a response to "a flagrant violation" of the Laotian cease-fire by the Communists. Washington officials said that the B-52s went into action after a North Vietnamese regiment led an attack on the Tha Vieng area in the Plain of Jars. U.S. embassy sources in Saigon, however, dismissed the attack as a minor action-"perhaps a squabble over rice." After two days the raids halted, which suggested that the B-52s were used more to dramatize U.S. dismay over the deteriorating situation in Indochina and less for specifically tactical purposes...
This is the territory he calls art brut-"raw art." Its landscape includes the gay scribblings of children, the darker grotesqueries of madmen's art and the limitless repertory of graffiti and folk images-naive, threatening, bizarre or just plain corny-that lies between...
...even the most casual reader of Rooseveltiana knows, Eleanor's life was full of woe. Her beloved father, a problem drinker, died young, and early death claimed her mother and brother as well. She grew up shy and lonely, self-conscious about her plain looks...
...days of air strikes, performed at the request of the Royal Laotion government, were aimed at North Vietnames and Pathet Lao forces on the Plain of Jars, an area that has been bombed so much observers say it looks like the craters of the moon...
Fourth Circuit Chief Judge Clement Haynsworth, one of Nixon's aborted Supreme Court Justices, ruled that funds for the operation of a campus newspaper cannot be cut off solely because college officials disagree with the newspaper's editorial opinions. The wording was exceedingly plain: "[College administrators] can't withhold funds just because they don't like what a campus paper prints...