Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five years in prison for "leaking important state secrets." Among them: the time, place and agenda of an upcoming meeting of the plenary session of the Communist Party Central Committee. Last month two European journalists browsing in downtown Peking's stamp mar ket were startled when two plain-clothes policemen emerged from the crowd of shoppers to arrest the dealer who had just sold them a $5 stamp. The dealer had probably defied an earlier warning not to sell to foreign customers...
...local chapter of the Guardian Angels will teach a crash course in self-defense at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum this summer, assisting the Jamaica Plain community in its effort to increase security at the park...
Against all these political and ecclesiastical realities stands one plain fact: these churches more and more need one another. Divisions that developed over the centuries appear hopelessly confusing and senseless to young Third World churches. And they make the Christian Gospel considerably less attractive to the growing number of skeptics in the West. Most fundamentally, the churches recognize the vision of Christian reunion in Jesus Christ's prayer for his followers before his Crucifixion: "That they may all be one ... so that the world may believe." This, says Archbishop Runcie, is "an imperative of the Gospel...
...Chase Manhattan, the impact of the default was plain enough. After an impressive five-year string of earnings gains, the third largest commercial bank in the U.S. was confronting the biggest single loss in its history. Still unable to explain fully how the bank's bond trading department had stumbled into its costly involvement with the little-known Drysdale in the first place, Chase had no choice but to swallow hard and announce a onetime write-off of perhaps $135 million after taxes, or more than what the bank had expected to earn in the second quarter. Another...
Eakins is the greatest realist painter America has so far produced. He never successfully idealized a subject. When theatrical, which he rarely was, he tended to look silly. He was pragmatic, cussed, inquisitive, thoroughgoing, relentlessly observant, and plain of pictorial speech: a Yankee to the last finger bone. He was so in love with the specific that one scholar managed to compute, from the sun's angle, the time and date of the scene depicted in one of his paintings of rowers training on the Schuylkill, The Pair-Oared Shell; they went under the bridge, give or take...