Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also uncovered in the Lydian Bazaar were three inscriptions from the 6th century B.C. incised on plain pots. Experts believe the language is Carian, that of a people who lived south of the Lydians and whom the Lydians employed as mercenaries...
Handling a testy racing bike is tough work for a man, but to Jill Savage it is almost always just plain fun. "When you look at a good bike," she says, "it's like looking at a steeplechase horse. It's lovely. When you feel the tires bite the turf and the bike take off. and you know you've judged it just right, and you can feel the power waiting to take a bite again-that's simply gorgeous...
...final report, Bender spoke out against "academic elitism," calling for a Harvard with some students "who aren't brilliant or leaders, who are just plain, ordinary, decent, uncomplicated human beings . . . to provide a human scale in this community of supermen...
FIELD TRIP conducted by Donald Wyman, horticulturist at the Arnold Arboretum, starts at the Administration Building of the Arboretum Jamaica Plain...
This catalogue of calamities expresses a major Communist crisis: the Reds' evident inability to bring the same competence to agriculture that, on the whole, they show in industry and technology. After 40 years of collectivization and relentless agricultural planning, the Marxists are making it plain once again that they lack a green thumb. This is all the more remarkable because, since the war, much of the non-Communist world has experienced a startling agricultural revolution. Machines are replacing men in the fields; with countless innovations, science has vastly increased the yield of the earth. But at a time when...