Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese made it very plain that they welcomed the table tennis team as the "people of America," whom they carefully separated from "the Government of America." As the team moved around, the lesson was driven home to the Chinese citizens in the press and on the radio. "There was tremendous interest and no hostility," said one of the accompanying newsmen. "If the expression was not one of interested curiosity, it was one of welcome friendliness. That message must have been put over by the Chinese government." In fact, the New China News Agency carefully spelled it out for its readers...
...mistress of the house at 51 Harvey Road, seems as unexceptional as the setting. She does her own grocery shopping, spends a great deal of her time tending to her two-year-old son while her husband runs his small art gallery. She is 34, relaxed, intelligent and plain...
...course, no guarantees. Each installment gets more difficult: last week's featured such goodies as haddock mousse and a passel of paellas. Julia Child, co-author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, says she thinks Grand Diplome looks "pretty good." The U.S. edition is published in Maple Plain, Minn., which is a long way from Paris no matter how you look...
They then drove to Jamaica Plain, where both men allegedly raped her. Carefully keeping her from seeing the car's license plates. they drove her back to Garden St. The girl was unhurt, her friend said...
This time around the heroine is Beatrice, the divorced/widowed mother of two high-school girls, one a sluttish convulsive, the other a painfully shy Plain Jane. Beatrice's family makes its home in a ground-floor apartment that looks like the setting of The Glass Menagerie thirty years and several natural disasters later. For money there is the rent mother collects from cruel families who dump their dying elderly in the flat's spare room...