Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fall at Harvard never fails to instill a sense of excitement and high expectations for an even better year within every student. Unfortunately, either the Crimson's editorial board is less motivated than the rest of us or else it is just plain unwilling to do a better job than it has in the past...
...passed your suggestion along to coach Frank McLaughlin and he said he will let you know. He is sifting through offers from a church in Brookline, a playground in Jamaica Plain and an alleyway in Charlestown, but he has your address and he will be around to inspect the site...
...governments in numerous other corners of the globe.) So, in Tsongas's mind, the answer is not only to court Third World nations--a fine idea--but also to spend as much of our gross national product on armaments as the Russians. We should, he says, "be very plain that we are prepared to meet any Soviet arms buildup; that we will respond to their aggressive instinct." Tsongas is in this case a moderate because he only supports nuclear parity, not superiority...
...cannily avoids this issue and also skirts another heated dispute involving Abraham. The only part of the Abraham narrative in Genesis open to archaeological corroboration is a military story in Chapter 14. It specifies nine kings and numerous sites, including Sodom and Gomorrah and three other "Cities of the Plain" along the Dead Sea. In 1976 Pettinato startled a convention of U.S. professors of religion by reporting that references to all five of those cities crop up at Ebla. More recently, he has modified his claim: three of the five names occur- Sodom, Gomorrah and Zoar - and he explains that...
...have discovered that these people are laying aside the sloppy attire of the 1960s. And even the fall catalogue of L.L. Bean, the Freeport, Me., sporting goods store, offers dressy shirts and slacks. In the 1970s, one of Bean's big sellers was hiking boots; now it is plain-toe, lace-up shoes. Says Director of Product Management Charles Kessler: "We're seeing the dress-up tendency...