Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deny that he had known about the CIA'S shadowy activities all along, five of his six Democratic colleagues on the investigating committee hotly called for his resignation as chairman. If Nedzi does not go quietly this week, his fellow Democrats on the committee made it plain that if necessary, they would force a House vote...
Curiosity seekers started streaming into the province, a scrubby sand plain 14 miles from the Indian Ocean and enlivened only by an occasional kangaroo. Tourism rose from 3,000 in 1970 to 40,000 last year. Mail from round the world is running at 200 letters a week, many from prospective settlers who apparently see the province as a potential Elysium-on-Hutt. An air service flies in from Perth (370 miles south) twice weekly, first circling the capital as a signal to the prince to clear the grassy landing strip of grazing cattle...
...entire history protected male--and middle and upper class--prerogatives in the admissions process, and which accedes to senior faculty in the History Department who claim there is only one black American historian in the entire country qualified (though conveniently unwilling) to teach here, it is not so plain that there has been a sincere commitment to "democratic meritocracy" with its passion for fairness. And secondly, there is the problem of meritocracy itself. Do we want, or does the rest of the world need, a Harvard that picks out an elite to do society's work when society's work...
Kevin Fitzgerald, state representative for Mission Hill and Jamaica Plain, spoke after Ploss...
...simply Harvard. After all some of our class were less than two winters away from huddling in foxholes around Bastogne with their commander, in a very un-H-way, replying "Nuts" to the Third Panzer Army's demand for surrender. And some--of them had even seen Patton, plain. Or though a glass, darkly, pear-handled pistols, white bulldogs, boots, spurs and all, depending on how you saw the man. They don't have this kind around anymore, which is all part of what I am getting at. There is a myth that soldiers don't like to talk about...