Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tears my guts out to see the kids lose on a plain, old damned-bad call. That's why I was so mad," Hart said afterwards...
...north of Saigon. As part of the bargain, the South Vietnamese would release 4,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong prisoners over a four-day period. In both North and South, the U.S. captives would be loaded aboard medical-evacuation planes for Clark Air Base in the dusty Luzon plain of the Philippines. At Clark as the release approached, the men inside the Joint Homecoming Reception Center Command Post scanned a bank of clocks reading "Hanoi," "Local," "Hawaii," "Washington D.C.," and "Zulu" -Greenwich mean time. Officers manned hot lines, and prepared to chart every movement of the prisoners from...
...illegal organization, took part in the bus bombing incident two weeks ago. Certainly it has become more visible lately. Even as William Craig blandly denied at a press conference last week that the U.V.F. played any role in the new United Loyalist Council, a U.V.F. representative sat in plain view behind...
...young in recent years have seemed so angry, serious, self-absorbed and just plain blue that one could scarcely guess that they had it in them to produce an uproariously funny spoof of the rock scene and its counterculture folk heroes. Nonetheless, National Lampoon staffers have done just that on the off-Broadway stage, and with wicked precision...
...beach where she used to go as a child. She cannot go there any more because there are more urgent things to take care of in Derry and Parliament, and because to go to a beach and be identified as either Catholic or Protestant would be just plain asking for it. For the average person it is safer to sit at home drinking tea, listening to the reports of bombings on the tube, venturing out for bread and milk only if absolutely necessary, counting the days till next Thursday's bingo game...