Word: plain
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...point of plain fact, a teacher of literature may do several quite different things, especially these days when universities house their own schools of thought on the subject. Some teach the formal aspects of literature, some the sociology of literature, some the politics. There are those who teach because literature tells them what it means to be human; others who hold that literature means whatever one wishes it to mean; still others who say it means nothing at all. Defenders of each fort sometimes make the newspapers, where, in argument with one another, they sound like crazed religious warriors...
lacocca succeeded by indulging the passionate American love affair with the automobile. He combined a knowledge of an automobile's innards with a shrewd, almost intuitive sense of what car buyers wanted. He stripped the plain-Jane body off Ford's dowdy Falcon and replaced it with a long-hood, short-rear-deck configuration called the Mustang that in 1964 set a record for automobile sales by a first-year model (418,000). Four years later he reached into Ford's spare-parts bin again and launched the limousine-like Continental Mark III on a Thunderbird chassis...
...alternate these ovals with equally slanted lines, they have all the basic components of lower-case italic letters (and,incidentally, of architectural ornament through the ages). When youngsters master individual letters, they are taught to join them, although not all letters can be legibly connected. The capital letters are plain Roman capitals with a little swash here and there to celebrate the joy of writing...
What about your car? The patrolman may seize any contraband that is in plain view, but the Fourth Amendment prohibits a search inside the car unless he has sound reasons for thinking that it contains contraband or illegal weapons. Your rights will not count for much if you are rude, however, because the officer can still choose to make a formal arrest for your traffic offense. If he does, he can then thoroughly search both you and the passenger compartment...
...across the U.S. There seems to be room for all. For instance, a dozen or more competitors have opened up around the two Garrett Pop Corn Shops in Chicago's Loop; even so, the 33-year-old Garrett's, which sells only butter, caramel, cheese and plain, has seen business treble in the past decade...