Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jeanne Moreau is a hauntingly beautiful woman. TIME'S cover portrait was just plain haunting...
Women have been going about in curlers for years, always in the hope of getting crinkles to wave, waves to coil, coils to stand up and be counted. Fortunately, the means to curly ends-bobby pins, hairpins, miniature rollers or just plain rags-could be easily camouflaged around the house. In public, the works could be concealed under a snood or scarf, even fitted accommodatingly under a bathing cap. Most important, the head that hit the pillow (encompassed though it was in scrap metal) never had to worry about going to sleep: the weight of a million bobby pins...
...when they want in their own hotel. They pay stiff prices for almost everything, and the cab drivers hurt their feelings by speaking English when they try out their high school Spanish. But this is Puerto Rico, and this year the tourists, the mainlanders, statesiders, continentals, or just plain gringos are flying down as never before...
This summer the GSE will run a summer school for 300 Boston elementary school students at the Kennedy School in Jamaica Plain. The staff will be composed of teachers, administrators, and guidance councillors from school systems all over the country. They will be supervised by a small group of professors led by Robert H. Anderson, professor of Education...
...certain empty, vacant stare signifies that you have suddenly become transparent, virtually non-existent; a special way of moving the lips without uttering a sound makes it plain that the General is no longer listening, that he is preparing to greet the next person...