Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newcomer who wanders into this scene not knowing what to expect notices first that everyone seems to know everyone else. Dress is plain and runs for both men and women to tractor-fixing clothes, nondesigner jeans and faded flannel shirts hanging out from under jean jackets. There isn't a sequined vest or pair of DayGlo satin Grand Ole Opry overalls in sight...
...contestants are amateurs, although some of them make a few dollars working occasionally in country bands. No one is going to get rich today; the top prize in each of three divisions is $150. The music, too, is plain; instruments with electronic pickups are not permitted, nor (except in trick-and-fancy divisions of some contests) is double-bowing, which means playing two notes at once...
...once the chips were on the table, the consequences of defeat, in the White House's view, were all too plain. If Congress turned down the Administration's plan to sell five sophisticated AWACS radar planes and other air-combat gear to Saudi Arabia, Ronald Reagan's ability to conduct any effective foreign policy at all would be called into serious question. If he could not deliver on this promise, how could foreign leaders trust any other commitment he might make? In European as well as Middle Eastern capitals, U.S. allies awaited the vote as a test of Reagan...
...Saudis have made it very plain that they want to be cooperative. They want stability in the Middle East, and have shown that with their willingness to participate in bringing about the Lebanon ceasefire. So I don't think there's a change called for. I think it's a continuation...
...their Battlecreek, Mich., sanatoriums. With cheerful innocence, Americans have periodically embarked on reordering themselves, as well as the country and the world. The current obsession with the body can partly be seen as a diminished expression of the old or of unquenchable American optimism. "Here's for the plain old Adam, the simple genuine self against the whole world." So Ralph Waldo Emerson toasted the American spirit. But the "old" Adam, that rugged and predatory individualist, in his current incarnation is caught in a dilemma: how to survive an increasingly imperfect, not to say hostile, environment...