Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficult to imagine that Harvard's graduate and professional schools ever produced students over-whelmingly content with their education. In the past they expressed their dissatisfaction with post-graduate studies in general malaise, specific criticisms, or just plain bitching. Yet because the students felt this dissatisfaction was private and personal, they rarely communicated their discontent effectively to fellow students or to the faculty and administration of their schools. Since early 1966, however, Harvard graduate students have brought their complaints into the open...
...been enclosed with low cattle fences-though the caribou inside can jump like kangaroos. The fair's bearded, ebullient president, electric-company executive Don Vogwill, 43, still has not figured out what to do about the enclosure's moose population: during rutting season, a hostile, amorous or plain myopic bull moose could knock the tiny train off its tracks...
Double Play. Meanwhile, though the Arabs continued to talk tough, they were busy looking for exits through which they could escape with honor. The plain fact was that, as Arab and Jew squared off for battle in the hazy heat of a khamsin desert wind, no one wanted the battle to start. From the beginning, the crisis had been the product of massive miscalculations. Nasser, who has repeatedly and publicly warned that the Arabs are not yet strong enough to take on Israel, made the first mistake by signing a mutual defense pact with his fellow leftists in Syria...
...digging a credibility gap, and now that he is publisher of Long Island's tabloid Newsday, Bill Moyers, 32, thinks the same thing. The nation's newspapers, he told the Illinois Bankers Association, share equal blame for any gap because of all the conflicting interpretations and plain bad reporting. Said Bill: "I learned at the White House that what's happening often depends upon who is looking, and that of all the great myths of American journalism, objectivity is the greatest...
...sound and fury, there was little chance of a calculated explosion in the Middle East. If Israel planned a strike against Syria, it had lost its chance by telegraphing its punch. Both sides, in fact, were making it plain that they would move only if the enemy moved first. It was nevertheless a dangerous situation. All along the Israeli frontier, any trigger-happy soldier on either side could start a major conflagration. In the Gaza Strip, Ahmed Shukairy, the fire-eating boss of the Palestine Liberation Organization-which has nothing to lose and everything to gain from a war with...