Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outcome of the election had seemed to be in doubt, it was clear once the plain white paper ballots were counted that the Herut had decisively opted for the older and politically seasoned Shamir. As soon as the results were announced, Meridor rushed off to telephone Begin...
After the ceremonies were over, Aquino's plain wooden coffin, draped with the Philippine national flag, was carried out of the church by 16 pallbearers amid cheers and chants of "Ninoy. Ninoy." When the coffin was placed atop the flower-bedecked platform of a flatbed truck, a crowd that had gathered before dawn went wild. Police estimated that, despite torrential rains, more than 1 million people had gathered along the 19-mile route between the Santo Domingo Church and the Manila Memorial Park cemetery...
...themselves; they get violent, psychoanalysts say, because it gives them a cheap squirt of power. Like most criminals, they are immature and impulsive. Everything they want they want instantly. And they are uncommonly isolated people, often virtually friendless, cut off from those who lead richer, happier or just plain calmer lives...
Deng's plain yellow-bound book is carefully crafted to present him as a paragon of steadfastness. Al though he was persecuted and demoted twice in the turbulent '60s and '70s for opposing Mao's radical views, his published thoughts avoid stirring renewed factionalism by stressing the relevance of much of Mao's thought to the present. At the same time, in blunt and peppery language, Deng denounces Mao's autocratic ways as "feudal" (see box) and the destructive Cultural Revolution as "a big error...
...HABS team at the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, whose ornate bell towers rise like baroque sand castles out of the Texas plain, has been updating and supplementing drawings made in 1935 and 1936. "The purpose of the original survey was to capture the missions as they existed then," says Ken Anderson, HABS' principal architect, who flew from Washington, D.C., to work with Schlinke, Texas Tech Professor John White and William Peoples, a recent graduate of California Polytechnic. "This follow-up survey teaches us how rapidly erosion takes place and how soon something will have to be done...