Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paterson's Mayor Graves conceded that Negroes in his city had just complaints, but he argued angrily that the riots were not a legitimate expression of their grievances. Said Graves, as he slapped a ban on all Fourth Ward public assemblies except weddings and funerals: "This was just plain old lousy lawbreakers who are using their color to say they can't be arrested...
...times during the week, once for 16 minutes. But there was no panic, and trading volume stayed extraordinarily low for most of the week. Professionals figured that, in any case, the market needed an excuse to retreat after a heady climb, guessed that there was a good deal of plain old profit taking. At the most bearish hour last week, Indicator Digest, an investment advisory service, issued a special bulletin: "Emotional war jitters have always culminated in good buying opportunities." True enough, but wary professionals were not entirely sure that the jitters were quite over...
...original mosque, in what is now Jordanian Jerusalem, was built around the rock from which Mohammed supposedly rode to heaven on horseback in 632 A.D. The architecture was plain: a dome, 72 ft. in diameter, raised on a colonnaded drum to a peak of 116 ft. and set in the center of an octagon. But the decoration was splendid: quartered-marble paneling and glass mosaics on gold backgrounds...
...know whether these are muskrats from the Charles," he said, "or just plain ordinary rats, but some of the neighbors have told me that they are nearly as big as cats...
...trade name contracted from "corrosion-tensile." It differs from plain carbon steel in its high copper content...