Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ralph Lowell '12, distinguished Boston resident, civic leader and philanthropist, died Monday in Faulkner Hospital, Jamaica Plain...
Standing on a dazzling white plain of ice that stretched southward in every direction, the diminutive (5 ft. 3 in., 130 Ibs.) explorer planted the Japanese flag on the pole. The next morning, jubilant members of his support team, who had made five airdrops of supplies along the way, landed beside him in a small plane. Uemura, 37, was full of apologies for taking two weeks longer than he had anticipated to make the grueling journey. Said he: "I'm awfully sorry I was delayed, but I finally got here...
...plaintiffs appealed, and the appeals court overturned the district court, stating in its decision "we reverse now on the plain and simple ground that, without either reasonable basis or compelling interest, the composition of the Council is formulated on the basis of race...
...aside from all this, I think most people are afraid because radiation, and the technology needed to bring enough radiation together to produce 1300 megawatts of electricity, are just plain scary. If most people were not afraid, after all, that ad, aimed at frightened people, would not have been put on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times...
Shoppers in Harvard Square looked on as Bok stood among the shouting students. A Harvard police car headed onto Mass Ave against oncoming traffic. As the car U-turned and stopped, four plain-clothesmen helped Bok move through the crowd. Despite students' protests, Bok, aided by the policemen, entered...