Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MacNeil first began considering a cover story on Ervin last fall. "It was plain then that a constitutional crisis was brewing," he says. "As one of the constitutional experts in Congress, Ervin seemed the man most likely to do battle with the Administration's attempts to expand its authority." As our story points out, Ervin, with his customary vigor, is doing just that...
...print media grumbled about the preferential treatment accorded to the TV press, but if the newspaper reporters felt bad about losing the inside track, they were just plain sick over the amount of money being spent by the networks for a few minutes of film...
Dunlop and Peterson nearly put me to sleep, the women from Radcliffe and Wellesley snubbed me, but by far the worst experience was Joe's plain cheese...
...amazingly inept. If Watergate had been a childish antic by a few misguided Nixon zealots, as presidential aides insisted, quick and candid disclosure of all the facts would have rendered it a brief summertime sensation. If it was more serious and involved officials close to Nixon, as now seems plain, those implicated should have been exposed and fired. At worst, Nixon's re-election margin might have been less grand. But high Republican and White House officials chose to evade and even to lie. Last week that dam of deceit seemed on the verge of collapse, spilling Watergate...
...first civilized cultures. Equally intriguing, some of the artifacts found near Shahdad are so similar to those from Elam that archaeologists suspect that trade flowed regularly between the two communities. Despite the bleak surroundings, the newly discovered settlement was well situated for a mercantile role. Built on a plain known since ancient days as Xabis, it sits astride the principal trade routes between northern Iran and the Persian Gulf...