Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even allowing for some exaggeration, it was plain that the engagement was a disaster for Iraq. Dozens of burned-out Soviet-built tanks and hundreds of armored vehicles Uttered the flatlands, many mired in sand softened by March rains. A charred radar dish was draped with a poster of Khomeini and banners that proclaimed GOD is GREAT! Fired by religious fervor and a belief in the rightness of their cause, Iranian soldiers have proved to be a far more potent fighting force than Saddam Hussein expected. "When you believe in God, you win," said a young fighter pilot who, like...
...their trial judges had given improper instructions to the jury. None of their lawyers had objected on that ground at the trial. The three said they were nevertheless entitled to federal review of their convictions via habeas corpus petitions if they could show that the judges' actions constituted "plain error." But O'Connor, relying on a 1977 Rehnquist opinion, held them to a tougher test. They must, she said, show good cause for not having raised the issue during the regular trial and appeal process, and they must show that the trial error resulted in actual prejudice...
...which De Chirico visited briefly as a young man, and Ferrara, where he lived from 1915 to 1918. Turin's towers, including the eccentric 19th century Mole Antonelliana, regularly appear in his paintings. Another favorite site, Turin's Piazza Vittorio Veneto, is surrounded on three sides by plain, deep-shadowed arcades; these serried slots of darkness are the obsessive motif of De Chirico's cityscape. He may have grasped their poetic opportunities through looking at Böcklin's paintings of Italian arcades, but no painter ever made an architectural feature more...
...33rd President of the U.S. seems, at first blush, an unlikely practitioner of this secretive art. "Give-'em-hell" Harry made plain speaking his trademark; he spared few enemies, in or outside politics. When Washington Post Music Critic Paul Hume panned a singing performance by Margaret Truman, the letter sent by her enraged father made headlines. But H.S.T. was not always as impulsive as his public tongue-lashings suggested. Another review by Critic Hume annoyed the President, and he complained in writing to Post Publisher Philip Graham: "Why don't you fire this frustrated old fart and hire...
...western enough to have once been on the frontier, eastern enough to have a past." He came-up with Hamilton, "a city, a self-contained town, a suburb, a satellite in the orbits of both Cincinnati and Dayton, a minor metropolitan cluster, a country seat, a bump on the plain, a galactic microdot where 63.189 people want to see what will happen next. "Davis probably could not have done better in his search for an American stew, but his selection begs the question of the value of conveniently designating one city or town as a microcosm for the larger whole...