Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Operation Olympic, scheduled for Nov. 1, 1945, would land the largest invasion force in history--nearly 340,000 soldiers and Marines--on the island of Kyushu; then, as early as March 1946, Operation Coronet, involving up to 2 million men, would target the island of Honshu and the Kanto plain, on which Tokyo lies...
...Hollywood has done another injustice and fooled millions of Americans. Anyways, I don't get your whole "sympathize with the bad guy" thing. I was rootin' for Bennett the whole time, and proud of it. Devlin and Gregg are jerks, and I wanna' see them lose. Plain and simple...
...being a done deal, however. The government made no public statement about the ending of Suu Kyi's house arrest. Nor is it clear that she is truly free to say or do what she wishes. Inside the bungalow at 52 University Road last week, SLORC intelligence officers in plain clothes mingled with the visiting oppositionists, diplomats and journalists who gathered. Many of her supporters suspect that the generals are merely trying to woo foreign governments, investors and such institutions as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund by making a single concession-the release of the lady -- with...
...review. The names given to the command and lunar modules of Apollo 13, Odyssey and Aquarius, were not, as the article implied, derived from the entertainment-industry products 2001: A Space Odyssey and Hair. Astronaut Jim Lovell's book clearly states the derivation of the names: Odyssey because Lovell "plain liked the ring of the word," and Aquarius from Egyptian mythology. Otherwise, the review was well written, and should bring throngs to movie theaters to witness what happened 25 years ago. I hope most of the seats are filled by those who were too young to experience firsthand the tension...
...local offices and 101 seats in the legislature. That accounted for the scene outside the town's election center, where thousands of empty ballots were in trucks, waiting to be delivered to the polls. The ballots, however, weren't going anywhere because workers had already made their feelings plain; they weren't going to be caught on the streets after dark...