Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still see him standing in the doorway barring the way of a Negro trying to get a college education; but I can't help feeling quite a bit as he does. I also think thousands, no, millions of others are feeling the same way. We are just plain tired, tired of supporting everyone. It really seems that everything is geared to help the poor (nobody really begrudges this help), but since we pay the way, maybe a little bit of help...
Incredible Geology. Touchdown will take place on an undulating mountain-ringed plain near the large crater Descartes (named in honor of the 17th century French philosopher and mathematician). The region is farther south of the lunar equator and at a higher elevation than any earlier landing site (about 8,000 ft. above Apollo 11 's Tranquility Base, 150 miles to the northeast). Far more significant is the geological diversity of the landing area. It may contain three basically different types of material: 1) original crustal rock dating back to the moon's birth some 4.6 billion years...
...famished, unemployed refugees from rural areas. As Toni Hagen, director of the U.N. relief operation in Dacca, puts it, the situation is "desperate." "Blankets won't do, baby food won't do, midwifery kits won't do," says Hagen. "Cash is required for employment and reconstruction-plain cash." Food is urgently needed, of course, especially in the next two months, before the arrival of 700,-000 tons of wheat pledged by India. But vital repairs of roads and bridges must be made in order for such supplies to be distributed. Factories, too, lie stagnant for lack...
...Hicks had brought her followers with her, red-faced housewives from Hyde Park and Jamaica Plain. Some had signs pinned to their dresses: REPEAL THE RACIAL-IMBALANCE...
...duke's taste, though unerring, was also eclectic. At the same time he commissioned the painting of Christ enthroned, around 1415, he also commissioned an Apocalypse from a painter whose style was the very reverse of decoration-plain, and freely, almost aggressively, brushed in. One page shows the woman with a seven-headed dragon from the Book of Revelations, "clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." The design, compressed into a few square inches, has a marvelous sweep-the rockfolds echoing the curve of the dragon...