Word: plain
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Where the graft comes sweepin' down the plain...
Expected reductions of more than a million dollars in federal funds for legal aid services could close the Legal Services Institute in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston, a public service law clinic funded jointly by the Harvard Law School and the federal government, Institute officials said yesterday...
...police say the items were in "plain view" during the arrest, Estis could be found guilty under New York statutes that require defendants to "know of and possess" such items, Dorfman said...
...occupied territories. The Israeli plan, as advanced by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, is to bring civilian rule to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where 1.3 million Palestinian Arabs have lived under military jurisdiction since the Six-Day War of 1967. The short-term Israeli goal was plain enough: to create the political and social conditions under which a system of limited autonomy could conceivably be successful. The long-range goal was more significant: a West Bank whose destiny would be tightly bound to that of Israel...
There is about her the uncomfortable air of a plain girl unaccountably forced to fill in for the homecoming queen. One also feels her pushing, pushing, pushing to fulfill the demands of wit and style that are made on leading women in dramatic comedy. She comes as close as conscious craft can bring her, yet succeeds mainly in communicating her own edginess. What's missing, very simply, is the kind of natural charm an actress like Irene Dunne used to bring to roles like this, an ability to modulate from humor to rue almost, it seemed, without thinking...