Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then it hit me," she recalls. "A classy life-style magazine that you could have on your coffee table, one that wouldn't come in a plain brown wrapper." With enthusiastic support from former publishing colleagues, Douglas spent more than a year formulating her magazine and then raised close to $2 million to launch it. The first issue, in August 1980, ran 177 personal ads free; the October 1981 Intro ran 1,077 personals at an average cost of $25 each...
Floral Vignettas from the Cape of Good Hope--Aron Laurie; Hunnewell Bldg., Arnold Arboretum, Jamalca Plain...
...Saturday, police confiscated all the liquor and proceeds collected at the door and bar at the party held at Roger's home in Jamaica Plain. The event was attended by about 50 to 75 members of the NOMATEP coalition, which opposes the construction of the $238 million engine power plant for environmental reasons...
...Crimson backline saved its best for last, turning in its finest performance of the season. Besides the individual coverage responsibility--Laura Mayer on Jane Spink, Jeanne Piersiak on Allison Vibert, and Kelly Gately on Jane Duffy--the fullbacks slid, dove, and just plain hustled to repeatedly deny the Huskie offensive many good shots on goal...
...historians now holds Truman just about as culpable as Stalin for the starting of the cold war. The more general view among scholars is that he belongs among the near great Presidents. In the popular memory, the intensely partisan and sometimes petty politician has now blended into the endearingly plain-spoken and gutsy "common man" rising to awesome responsibility...