Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Antiabortion groups are conducting battles not unlike those conducted during a holy war. Through hateful propaganda ("baby killers," "murderers," etc.), harassment, disregard of other people's civil rights and often plain violence, they attempt to force their own perception of morality on everyone else...
...President turned livid. He icily instructed Powell to tell reporters that "I haven't had a chance yet to talk to Secretary Adams, but I will in the very near future." Adams showed up at the White House Friday morning but did not wait to be fired. Said the plain-spoken Adams afterward: "I made clear my position. I quit... A Cabinet officer must work directly for the President?not for the White House staff." Butchman and Bracy also resigned...
...next day, in Moscow, Byrd talked for 2½ hours with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who made it plain that if the Senate amended the text proper, the whole treaty would be reopened. Byrd paraphrased Gromyko's explanation...
Western Australia's Nullarbor (meaning no trees) Plain is an arid, limestone plateau that lies east of the old gold-rush towns of Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie, southeast of Comet Vale and northeast of Grass Patch. It is a barren, almost unpopulated land of sand and saltbush. Out of the blackness of the southwestern sky one night last week, the fringe of this isolated region was visited by a fiery symbol of the Western world's most advanced technology: the final, fatal fall of Skylab...
Newman's hard-sell tactics have turned off some of the patrons who are most knowledgeable about the arts. His prose can be flamboyant or plain trashy. He once billed Cavalleria Rusticana as "hot-blooded romance, illicit love and violent vengeance, Sicilian style." But Newman is a superflack, not a philistine. He wants to make culture a pervasive American institution...