Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...erupt in racial violence? As temperatures climb and hundreds of thousands of youths find themselves jobless in the ghetto streets, this year the tinder is drier than it has been since the fiery spring of 1968. While the urban ghettos have seemed quiet for a long time, it was plain all along that there was discouragement, if not despair, beneath the surface, and that violent anger could again erupt if conditions failed to improve...
Georgia's landscape, like its people, is varied. To the south lies the coastal plain. There Savannah, one of the South's busiest seaports, holds itself proud and aloof from the hinterlands...
...closing decades of the 19th century, time began to run out on the traditional faith. U.S. foreign trade doubled between 1870 and 1890. Navy Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a visionary military strategist, saw the seas as an "open plain" and urged the country "to cast aside the policy of isolation which befitted her infancy." The isolationist past was decisively rejected by Woodrow Wilson's intervention on the Allied side in World War I, but it was revived by the disillusionment that followed his crusade to make the world safe for democracy. The anti-internationalist movement reached a peak...
...discovering she is still beautiful and sexually appealing." To that end, Madonna's star design for fall is a long, black jersey dress ($50). Just over the area where the stomach protrudes, there is a circular cutout into which any one of three discs-two patterned and one plain black mesh-can be snapped. The black disc, recommended for evening wear, includes a strategically positioned rhinestone guaranteed to be the center of attraction...
...dead-Margaret and Clyde Johnson-were the children of Jamaica Plain welfare recipients Mr. and Mrs. James E. Johnson. They drowned on Saturday, May 15, when a makeshift raft on which they had been playing capsized. The pond, called a "death hole" by local residents, has been the site of at least one other drowning and numerous near-drownings...