Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cancel the SST had been a close 215 to 204, with twelve not voting. Moving quietly to avoid arousing the anti-SST forces, Ford issued blunt and personal appeals, concentrating on Republicans who had earlier voted against the plane. His basic pitch was party loyalty, backed up sometimes by plain logrolling...
...capabilities of those with high school diplomas. "Even in periods of continued economic growth," says a recent report of the Commission on Human Resources and Advanced Education, "more than a fourth of the college graduates would be available to upgrade the educational level of occupations." What this means, in plain English, is that even without a recession, 25% of all graduates will be working at jobs for which a college education is not needed...
...superficial level, the comparison with Metternich breaks down. As opposed to a finely carved figure, Kissinger is only of average height, slightly overweight, excessively plain, and somewhat stoop-ed. Far from beau-ideal, he is a Jewish refugee, and he speaks with a foreign accent. Despite the image of the gay divorcee, the ruminations about his social activity seem to be grounded more in journalism than in fact...
Harvard's liability for the drowning deaths of two children last Saturday at a University-owned pond in Jamaica Plain appears slight. unless a case can be built charging Harvard with gross negligence or willful and wanton misconduct in not dealing with known hazards of the land...
...That place is a death hole for little kids," said Geneva Boykin, aunt of Margaret and Clyde Johnson, the two children who drowned last Saturday in a Harvard-owned pond in Jamaica Plain...