Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wave of Soviet tanks and armored personnel carriers rolls across the northern German plain. Unable to stem the tide, NATO generals request permission to use tactical nuclear weapons. According to an alliance agreement, the President of the U.S. must give his assent before battlefield nukes can be fired. He does. Scores of heavy artillery pieces are aimed at the invaders. Nuclear devices, each packing the equivalent of ten kilotons (10,000 tons) worth of TNT, halt the aggressors. But in the process, West Germany's cities and factories are leveled, and civilian casualties run into the millions. An American...
...reason is plain: Some of the farthest-out pilgrims of the struggle keep crossing over from the worthy to the frivolous, from the serious to the preposterous. Granted, the main thrust to assure fair play for all Americans goes on as plausibly as ever, its partisans earnest, their issues understandable, their purposes reasonable. Still, there must be some sensible bounds-no matter how elusive-to the claims that can be made in the name of nondiscrimination...
Robert Frost spent only five years (1915-20) in a plain white farmhouse in the sleepy mountain town of Franconia, N.H., before moving on to Vermont. Nonetheless, townspeople decided to buy the house for $55,000 as a Bicentennial project and lend it rent free to a young poet for the summer, with $ 1,000 thrown in for groceries. The choice of the poet was left to the editors of the Atlantic Monthly, which published many of Frost's poems...
...Georges Arnaud thriller on which Henri-Georges Clouzot based his well-regarded 1953 film, The Wages of Fear (that's the one about trucking nitroglycerin over the mountains). The new movie is handsomely shot and crisply edited. Why, then, does one rather distantly respect it instead of just plain liking it? It is an odd, disappointing feeling to take away from a summertime movie...
...plain, ninth-floor Brooklyn office is painted in institutional green and has no air conditioning to reduce the summer heat. He gets a free one-room apartment and meals in the huge dining hall downstairs, plus the same $20 monthly stipend that the janitors get. He has been his religion's most important theologian for decades, but no one is allowed to know just which books or articles he has worked on. Though few people know his name, he has acquired more-than-papal power over 2.2 million souls around the world...