Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After 200 years the U.S. has acquired, thanks to the dynamism of her people and the special circumstances that God has provided for them, a position unique in the annals of mankind. Such a God-given privilege should make it plain that in an ever shrinking world where one man's problem is every man's problem, the U.S. does not belong to herself alone. That is the great lesson that has been taught us throughout these 20 decades, especially during the past 60 years...
...Boccaccio and John Lydgate's 15th century monstrosity The Fall of Princes−26,000 lines of bad poetry on the miseries that beset rulers. Something in human nature cannot resist being told that the richest, most powerful and most beautiful are also the most miserable. The plain fact that this is often not true has never weakened the formula's appeal, and Tryon plays it for whatever it is worth. No facet of his characters' exquisite unhappiness remains unbuffed. "There are better ways to amuse oneself than by being a movie star," Fedora pouts. "Movie star...
...power plant below, recalls Howard, "it just disintegrated. The water picked up a huge oil tank like a cork and away it went. There was a beautiful grove of cottonwood trees down below, and they were snapped off like matchsticks. Later I could see the water out on the plain. It was almost like a surrealist picture; as the water hit some of the farm fields, you could see an eerie cloud of dust and mist rise up three to five miles away...
...apostate" Catholic who returned to the church after ten years of disowning it. Why? Because I find the whole scene exciting, and my church (defined as community, not hierarchy) just plain heroic...
...most traditional of ceremonies at one of the nation's most hallowed shrines. On the broad green plain high above the Hudson River, where Baron von Steuben drilled minutemen 200 years ago, thousands of proud parents and nostalgic graduates will assemble this week to watch the corps of cadets pass in review: 4,400 young men in swallow-tailed gray coats, white trousers and black shakos stepping out with crisp precision while their brilliant regimental flags snap in the breeze...