Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever the outcome, it was increasingly plain that failure to discipline Powell-a lawmaker who scoffs at the law-could only add to the Democratic leadership's already heavy political burdens, to say nothing of its obligations to the integrity of the U.S. Congress...
...last fall, with their little, red pocket versions of Mao's works, some ugly clashes took place. Chou Enlai, always the mediator, stepped in and decreed that Red Guards were henceforth to refrain from interfering in industrial production or farming methods. But at the same time, Lin made plain to the Red Guards that the retreat was only temporary so far as Mao's grand scheme was concerned...
...correct attitude to take toward a stag film. A famous piece by Lionel Trilling (Of This Time, Of That Place) pits genius against the academic establishment in a story about a moral crisis in the life of a college professor. That the military is an insensitive institution is made plain by William Styron's story of a long march ordered by a Marine martinet, and it is unconsciously funny when measured by the standards of less car-oriented societies in which marching is not considered an ordeal...
...lesson is plain. Competition for land around the Library is going to be fierce. Moreover, the annual influx of tourists will undoubtedly stimulate development. New construction could bring a series of unsightly, uncoordinated, and unwanted buildings. Accommodating this large number of visitors is necessary; abandoning the place to them is not. Clearly, the City needs some means of regulating the real estate pressures now being exerted on the Square...
...series of implausible events leads to the bedroom of a 17-year-old seductress with a powerful allure: the unpublished novel of an obscure ecclesiastical essayist. Adam prefers the manuscript to the girl, who presents herself to him unexpurgated and not even in a plain wrapper. It should be a funny scene, but, like most of the situations, it flags quickly...