Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revision will be discussed at a meeting for concentrators on February 25, and a questionnaire will be distributed then to allow for students' criticism of the plain...
Several things about O'Connor combined to make him one of college hockey's most exciting players. First of all, he was just plain good; he was blessed with the lightning-fast reflexes goalies can't afford to pick up on the job. Also, his style was not designed to make Coach Len Ceglarski breathe easier. He gave up rebounds casually, seemingly aiming to please the fans by making more mindboggling saves (and running up his save average to over .900 in the process...
...eyes possessed no power, as the myths had it. Hitler's skin was coarse and his mustache slightly gray. His bottom teeth were goldplated, which made Helms suspect they were false. Hitler's smile was humorless but his manner was pleasant enough. What was it about this plain man that had brought him so far, Helms wondered as Hitler talked of his hatred of Bolshevism, of the value of the party congress. Later, Helms would write: "No imagination could make anything godlike out of the ordinary mortal who chatted on that day. The striking things were the ready...
...initial test marketing, the company sent salesmen to supermarkets in Kansas City with sample bags of cookies bearing P & G's Duncan Hines label. The inaugural flavors are five varieties of chocolate chip-either plain or combined with butterscotch, almonds, mint or peanut butter-fudge. P & G has previously sold Duncan Hines cookie mix, but this is the company's first challenge to Nabisco and Keebler, the leaders in the $2.5 billion-per-year ready-to-munch-cookie industry. In its sales pitches, P & G asserts that it has developed technology to mass produce a cookie that...
...fresh pencil lead." Noting that the last Ice Age stopped around Ebbets Field, vanished home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he writes: "When a long-ball hitter hit a long ball, it would land on Bedford Avenue and bounce down the morainal front to roll toward Coney on the outwash plain. No one in Los Angeles would ever hit a homer like that...