Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...festival of songs, prayer chants and dances in honor of an ancient war victory by the god Rama over the demons of the underworld. The incense and joss sticks were often lit at makeshift shrines on card tables, and the traditional ornate, hand-painted dancing sticks were replaced by plain wood dowels. Displaced and dispossessed, the refugees nonetheless found abundant reason to celebrate. Said one technical engineer, who arrived in London with his wife and seven children: "We are here. We are safe. We are very happy...
...LIFE interviewer, "Inside, I've been alternately weeping and boiling. The quality I treasure most is my credibility." All last week McGovern's frustration seemed to mount. His rhetoric took on a new stridence, a tendency toward verbal overkill that was at odds with the image of plain-spoken reason he had earlier cultivated. At times there were notes of self-righteousness and occasional self-pity...
Barzel and the Christian Democrats would obviously like to ignore Ostpolitik as an issue if they could, and Barzel has made it plain that if he wins, he would not try to reverse Brandt's foreign policy accomplishments. As if to allay any doubts, the opposition leader pledged last week that he did not intend to alter whatever is "legally in force." He even staked a claim for possible Ostpolitiking of his own. "Those in authority in Moscow, Warsaw and East Berlin," he said, "would talk to us if it were in their interest...
...honors as Outstanding Homemaker ('53), Mother of the Year ('55) and Nation's Ideal Housewife ('57) by forever curling her own hair and pressing her husband's suits. The curlers and the traveling iron have now been packed away, as have many of the plain Republican cloth coats that Nixon made so much of in his famous 1952 Checkers speech. With the spotlight constantly trained on her, the First Lady has succumbed at last to the world of mink and designer labels...
Professor Seymour Lipset's statement that "McGovern's early supporters were attracted to him over the sex business, abortion and marriuans is insulting and just plain ridiculous. Perhaps I upset feels guilty and would like to forget about the war in Indochina. Surely you don't have to be a genius or even a Harvard professor to remember the days when McGovern was criticized for being a one user candidate, "Was that issue sex? abortion? manjuana? Even Seymour Lipset must be aware that Senator McGovern's early support was based mainly in his strong opposition to the war in Indochina...