Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yelling, shouting and shooting at nothing in particular, the Indians struck their cheerful terror until a plain-clothes deputy tossed a tear-gas bomb into the mob; then braves and Klansmen alike scattered. Soon state troopers sped into the field and disarmed them all. Happily the Lumbees jogged home, certain that the race-baiting bunch of newcomers to American soil would not mess around much more with Americans of a different brand...
Nuts & Jolts. In the Docking bid were such jolts as a 1? reduction in gasoline taxes (to be offset by a truck ton-mile tax), which pleased the oil companies, the railroads and plain, ordinary car owners; a 5% salary increase for state college and university teachers; slightly bigger corporation taxes, which outraged business but pleased Kansas' growing labor unions. Chuckles old Banker Docking: "This is one of those bankers' Machiavellian ideas. I dreamed up the gas tax-reduction plan all by myself, and later some of my people tried to talk me out of it. I said...
...produce scores of folk tales, dramas and novels. He now reappears in Pär Lagerkvist's latest book. Those who know the other works (Barabbas, The Eternal Smile) of Sweden's 1951 Nobel Prizewinner will find what they expect-psychological and mystical insights, told in nursery-plain prose and seeking to justify the ways...
...robe, learned to get along with the temple snakes, eat the sacred laurel and become the ecstatic "bride" of the god who emanated from the cleft of a rock in the depth of the earth. As a Pythia she was alone, a social outcast, feared and avoided by the plain people of Delphi. She was totally filled with the love of her dark, subterranean god, and yet at times she was rebellious. "For what else was there," she asked sullenly, "in this dirty world to love...
...made of common brick and perishable stucco), the Italian government late last year appropriated more than $3,000,000. Highest priority items for the rehabilitation program are the most delightful of all Palladio's creations-the villas he designed along the Brenta Canal and in the gently undulating plain of the Veneto region...