Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...size of the moon when it is on the horizon and when it is at the zenith. In all his writings, and in the many years he served as editor of the American Journal of Psychology and of Contemporary Psychology, he emphasized, by example and proscription, the importance of plain, sound English. It is a concern he passed on to the whole Department here...
...married woman aware of the stresses under which people today marry, and aware of the plain fact that people do not always get along. I am not aware of the needs of any of the people involved in the Rockefeller-Murphy divorces, and I'm sure the learned clergymen aren't either...
...monsoon downpour rained on the Plain of Jars last week-and so did a barrage of Communist Pathet Lao artillery and mortar shells. In an effort to consolidate last month's ground gains on the Plain, the Reds began pinpoint artillery attacks on the last remaining Neutralist toe holds on the plateau, as well as on the headquarters of Neutralist Army Leader General Kong Le at Muong Phan, just west of the Plain. Typically, the Reds blamed the U.S. for the resumption of hostilities, said that "the Americans have given orders to the reactionaries of Kong Le to attack...
...family owned the paper-but he has never forgotten the experience. "I resolved then and there," he recalls, "that not only would that never happen again, but that I would reply in kind." Now that he is editor-publisher of Cleveland's 121-year-old Plain Dealer (circ. 336,210) -a job he was named to earlier this month-Tom Vai1,36, hopes to reply to his competition not only in kind but in spades. His goal: to supplant the afternoon Press (376,630) as the biggest paper in Cleveland and all of Ohio...
...they have a second good relief pitcher in Jack Lamabe. The A's hitting has been coming from journeyman ball-players named Wayne Causey and Manny Jiminez, and already the hits are becoming fewer. The suspicion is that behind their flashy green and gold uniforms the Athletics are just plain green...