Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that we seek nothing that belongs to anyone else; that there are no strings attached to our offers; that all we ask in return for reciprocal arms reduction is the dropping of Iron and Bamboo Curtains -the opening of frontiers not only for international inspection teams but also for plain, ordinary people...
...conquistador caught McDonald's imagination: for Operation Balboa he briefed himself carefully under Balboa Expert Juan Rubio of the University of Panama. Then he followed the most authoritative route over the isthmus' north-coast range, down a remote river and across the densely jungled central plain. At length he faced three peaks, two about 8,000 ft. high and one only 2,200. With a professional soldier's cool surmise, McDonald decided that Balboa would have sensibly climbed the smaller hill for reconnaissance. McDonald and party scrambled up it and saw the silvery sea. He feels sure...
...distance covered by Athenian Courier Pheidippides in 490 B.C., when he raced from the plain of Marathon to the outskirts of Athens with news that Darius the Mede had been defeated...
...Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Every few minutes, up to eight times an hour, reverence for the nation's shrines had somehow to be combined with the bread-and-butter necessity of working in commercials. Home solved the problem by moving Arlene in front of a plain backdrop whenever it was time to deliver the hard sell, and she switched effortlessly from the wonders of Washington to the durability of Latex paint or the tastiness of Star-Kist tuna...
...Department will also construct a plain concrete blockhouse, which will serve as a storage house for the main plant...