Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reagan exaggerates and oversimplifies so consistently as a candidate, what would he do as a President? One point he made I do agree with-he'd need God's help in doing the job -though it's plain he underestimated the amount...
Whether genuinely baffled, simply supercautious or just plain ornery, U.S. primary voters continue to dangle the presidential nominations tantalizingly beyond the reach of all contenders. A victor's smile and glowing predictions seem only to ensure a comeuppance seven days later. As the primary trail nears an apparently inconclusive end, a clutch of uncommitted delegates to both Democratic and Republican Conventions has been dealt a hot-and potentially decisive-hand. They may well determine the 1976 nominees...
...claim that it is illegitimate for a person's race or sex to adversely affect his evaluation by an employer or admissions committee while trying to justify a practice in which these very attributes are used to give the individual an advantage over other candidates. Affirmative action is racism, plain and simple. It intensifies ethnic and sexual differences, creates tensions, and presents an image of the individuals it favors as pathetic and inadequate candidates in need of government help to get jobs and obtain positions in schools. None of these results is desirable and all are detrimental to minority...
After then travelling through India, Nepal, and the veldts of East Africa (where Land Rover safaris past Kilimanjaro and across the Serengeti plain were the major method of instruction), the year concluded at Jaeger's villa overlooking the Mediterranean at Sperlonga, Italy. Only a few of the students--one a woman who remained in a Sherpa village near Mt. Everest--failed to join the rest for the final week of the school. The week was given over to thesis writing (or dancing, or narrating) for those concerned about academic credit when they returned to their respective colleges...
...estimated 4.8 billion rat population, which outnumbers humans by a ratio of 8 to 1. Those are unfair odds. India's rats are believed to eat or destroy almost half the grain consumed in India-100 million tons; moreover, the rats are disease carriers, profligate breeders and just plain pests...