Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boston police last week released a composite sketch of a man suspected of raping a Jamaica Plain social worker at Harvard's Arnold Arboreturn 10 days...
...first in the series of assaults at the park occurred March 15 when a 28-year-old Jamaica Plain resident was jumped and repeatedly stabbed in broad daylight near the Walter and Bussey St. entrance to the Arboretum...
...course, is that the only people who are likely to vote for or against a candidate on the basis of that one issue are the aged, and they are still passionately opposed to any tampering with COLAS. This opposition is basically driven not by economic calculation but by plain fear of a poverty-ridden old age-and this fear is an understandably powerful motivation. Like many other retired couples, Evan Francis, 75, and his wife Mildred, 77, of Los Angeles, wrongly interpret any talk of lower future benefits as a threat to the $582 a month they receive from Social...
...power to be a better worker, a loyal citizen." One woman in the congregation disobeyed; she draped a banner over the balcony that read, "We have more than 150 prisoners for the work of the gospel." She was quietly escorted out of the church by several men in plain clothes and was presumably detained for questioning. Asked his opinion of the incident later, Graham replied: "We detain people in the United States if we catch them doing things wrong...
...Campbell and Pat Trusty, 23, from Massachusetts, took off at 50 m.p.h. from Watsonville, Calif., for Washington, B.C., in two Pterodactyl Ptigers. They plan to fly round the world in about six months. Says Campbell: "What we have here is a plain old-fashioned adventure." -By Michael Demarest. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Denver