Word: plaines
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...service in two wars, felt nothing for the financial plight of our little vacationing soldier boys in Germany. The U.S. military is totally overpaid and pampered. I've had occasions to observe our soldiers' behavior in Germany, both married and unmarried; and in most cases, if not plain ignorant, it's shabby. Many Germans are totally fed up with the ill-disciplined, prideless people we call the military...
...describes his preparations for the screenings this way: "I'm a very colorful dresser. Dressing well is one of the things I enjoy. Now, when I was getting ready to go to lunch with these Phoenix Club guys, my friend Milt told me what I should wear. 'Wear a plain colored shirt and a jacket,' he told me. I know they don't like colorful dressers because my friends told me not to dress the way I usually do. And then, the first time I got into a tux--the first time ever--I was standing in the club talking...
...known he indulged). On another journey, Nixon sat with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito on an old bunk bed in the marshal's restored birthplace in Kumrovec, swapping hard-time stories. When Jerry Ford had a fur hat clamped on his head by Brezhnev on the frozen plain near Vladivostok, he grinned, then immediately walked over to reporters and asked if they had heard the score of the big game back home: Michigan was playing Ohio State...
Whether through seduction and marriage or just plain old-fashioned bribery, the practice of illicitly cadging products and favors is called tsou-hou-men, or going through the back door. It is prevalent in every part of the country, from the poorest rural communes to the most luxurious compounds reserved for the elite. In the countryside, for example, peasants are allowed only two bars of bath soap and two or three light bulbs a year. But more of these precious items, as well as scarce fresh vegetables, chicken and eggs, can readily be obtained by anyone with an obliging relative...
Simple overweight is distinguished medically from gross obesity, a more serious condition that is often more difficult to treat. But even plain excess weight is almost universally believed to contribute to premature heart attacks and to be a prime cause of adult diabetes. Data compiled by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in 1960 showed that more than half of American adults then weighed 10% or more over the ideal for their height?a situation that the new data seem to show has grown even worse. In other words, despite the growing number of joggers, tennis nuts, weight watchers and organic...