Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cocktail or attempting anything so athletic as trotting upstairs. At the airport, 1,400 ft. above the city, no jets come in; Panagra's prop pilots sometimes take a whiff of oxygen during stopovers. Yet 4,000,000 people inhabit Bolivia; 75% are on the altiplano (high plain), a vast, barren Andean plateau averaging 12,000 ft. in altitude. Of the 75%, a few tin miners produce the nation's major export; the rest, mostly Quechua and Aymara Indians who cannot even speak Spanish, spend brief lives struggling to scratch a living from the stony soil...
...Western prairie country some time in the early '30s, the action hinges on the efforts of a plain girl's father and brothers to find her a husband before she reaches the no-takers age. Lizzie (Inga Swenson) knows as much as any man, but she scorns what every woman is supposed to know-how to flutter, flatter, bewilder and bewitch...
McLandress' unique contribution to science is the McLandress Coefficient, or McL-C (pronounced Mack-el-see), as it is known in professional circles. In plain language, a McL-C represents the average span of time for which an individual's thoughts remain centered on any subject other than himself. It is reached, according to its inventor, by "various depth perception techniques," including the frequency with which the subject invokes the first person singular in the course of an interview, a book, a speech or an article...
...black, silver-sequined tent of a Moroccan chieftain sat a dark-haired beauty. And before her on a dusty plain, a multitude of bearded Berber tribes men played at war for her amusement. Outside the ancient, mud-walled city of Marrakech, the turbaned warriors wheeled and galloped, sending great swirls of dust toward the tent, fired their silver-banded muzzle-loaders into the air in thunderous explosions of good black powder...
...arrival, Malraux made it plain that he found himself on a new frontier of De Gaulle's grand new France: "I'm not here to tell you what France can do for you but rather what France expects from you." Malraux humbly expressed "remorse for our past attitude toward French Canada," pleaded for Quebec to create a distinctive French culture in North America...