Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Majority Rule. President Ford's plain talk referred to another international complication that increasingly vexes Washington: in an expanding United Nations, the U.S. and Western Europe are more and more outvoted on key issues by blocs of small Third World countries. The President reviewed a lesson that he had learned during a quarter-century in Congress: "We who believe in and live by majority rule must always be alert to the danger of 'tyranny of the majority...
Most letters to the editor favoring amnesty for draft dodgers and deserters leave the impression that all of them are men of high principle and ethics. Aren't any of them just plain goldbricks or smart asses who not only considered it clever to walk off and leave the dirty detail for somebody else but, even worse, felt that the guys who did stay and carry the load were just dopes...
...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller...
PERHAPS A RESTORATION of insular compassion in American life is possible. If Vietnamese were recognized as people, just plain folks, bombing them would have been harder. The same generosity that produced the Nixon pardon might be extended to less well-known criminals. Blacks entering Boston schools might be recognized as not just "black." There is surprisingly low racial consciousness on Martha's Vineyard...
Harvard made it plain from the beginning that it was in no way responsible for the "Annex." But in 1893 President Charles W. Eliot and the Fellows of Harvard College realized that they would have to contend with "X College...