Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Viet Nam has not seen even in three decades of nearly continuous warfare. Up and down the narrow length of South Viet Nam, more than 36,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers joined in a widespread, general offensive against airfields and military bases, population centers and just plain civilians. No target was too big or too impossible, including Saigon itself and General William Westmoreland's MACV headquarters...
...jetliner touched down at New York's Kennedy International Airport, and the whole place went up for grabs. Some 2,000 hooky-playing, caterwauling teenagers stomped, whistled, screamed, sang or just plain fainted while the plane slowly disgorged 105 passengers, 11 crew members and four British Beetles. Oops, Beatles. On their first U.S. tour, the mop-topped, top pop wailers, John Lennon, 23, George Harrison, 21, Paul McCartney, 21, and Ringo Starr, 23, grinned amiably at the whole mad display. What was their secret? "A good press agent," chirped Ringo. (They have...
...Unit 2, technicians on the lobster shift one night last week faced a tranquil, even boring watch. Suddenly, at 4 a.m., alarm lights blinked red on their instrument panels. A siren whooped a warning. In the understated jargon of the nuclear power industry, an "event" had occurred. In plain English, it was the beginning of the worst accident in the history of U.S. nuclear power production, and of a long, often confused nightmare that threw the future of the nuclear industry into question...
...past few weeks, I have heard many unsettling comments reflecting misconceptions of acquaintance rape. The remarks have ranged from jokes such as, "Harvard doesn't have date rape because Harvard students don't date" to plain misinformation: "If sexual assault is so prevalent, then how come I don't know anyone who's been raped...
...meaning of life. I wanted to be a renowned biologist who carefully balanced his knowledge of the natural world with an eye toward the apparent diversity of human experience. Happily, I told my friend Matt, "I want to be an anthropologist!" as visions of voyages to the Serengeti Plain danced in my head...