Word: plaines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...they pleased. The newly enfranchised 18-to 21-year-old voters were conspicuous for working with -and not against-their elders. In Virginia, an independent won the race for lieutenant governor on a populist platform that cut across class and ethnic lines, offering a seeming palliative for almost every plain citizen's nagging anxieties...
...Terrorists machine-gunned two plain-clothes detectives who were investigating a burglary in the Catholic district of An-dersonstown. That brought the toll of slain police to six in 16 days, and the army retaliated by sealing off Andersonstown and searching every house. They arrested 28 suspects and seized 3,000 rounds of ammunition, eight guns and a cache of explosive chemicals...
...more of everything." That kind of reaction is not untypical of parents when they are first told that their children must be bused away. I'll lay my body in front of any bus. I'll chain myself to the school doors," cried Douglas Easter of Boston's Jamaica Plain, when he was informed that his children would have to attend a school three miles away...
Since late summer, sweater sales have soared. Says a Saks Fifth Avenue spokesman: "Sweaters have been fantastic all over the store." In Saks' junior department, the most popular examples have been the ribbed turtleneck, the flat knit with the plain round neck, and the sleeveless "shrinks"-short, tight numbers. In the designer departments, the bestsellers have been Anne Klein's high-necked sweater with buttons on the shoulders and Bill Blass's long-sleeved U-neck. "When we get in a new shipment from either one," says a Saks spokesman, "they're almost gone...
...politesse, faced a delicate situation. How should they welcome Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, arriving in Paris last week for a six-day visit? Since the bulky, heavy-browed Brezhnev, 64, holds neither state nor governmental station, technically he was not entitled to official honors. But he made it plain that he wanted full red-carpet treatment, and he knew that the French saw his first trip to Western Europe since succeeding Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 as an opportunity to improve relations...