Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...town's business district, four square blocks of shops, bars and other enterprises, including a feed mill and a cheese factory, lay in the flood plain of the Kickapoo River. Five times in the past 75 years, the village was hit by devastating floods. After one, the citizens sent an arriving Red Cross contingent home. They would take care of themselves, they said. And they did. To thwart the rampaging river once and for all, they decided to pick up the whole business district and move it half a mile away and 55 ft. higher...
Peter Lange's announcement that he will leave Harvard because he was not offered tenure should remind us of the problems recurrent in the tenure system. Discrimination, whether on the basis of race, sex, or political opinions, intra-departmental politics and just plain short-sightedness have robbed us all of many of the highest quality educators, especially in recent years...
...evidence of some strange doings with Kennedy's body in the twelve hours following the shooting. The reports by the Bethesda corpsmen, Custer and David, placed the time at which Kennedy's body was first delivered to the morgue at about 6:45 p.m. When the plain "shipping casket," as some witnesses called the coffin that arrived then, was opened, Kennedy's corpse was in a rubber body bag. Paul K. O'Connor, a Navy technician who helped lift the body onto the autopsy table, Floyd Reibe, a Navy photographer's assistant, and Captain John...
...censors wind up at the ridiculous only by going a very dangerous route. The board of the Island Trees Union Free School District on Long Island, N.Y., in a case still being contested by former students in court, banned eleven books as "anti-American, antiChristian, anti-Semitic and just plain filthy." Later they discovered that the banished included two Pulitzer prizewinners: Bernard Malamud's The Fixer and Oliver La Farge's Laughing Boy. For censors to ban books they have never read is commonplace. For them to deny that they are censoring is even more so. Said Attorney...
...Vuitton initials, however, are now so ubiquitous that some of the firm's traditional customers are grumbling. Said one impeccably dressed matron who stopped at Vuitton's Manhattan shop last week to ask about the plain bags: "I don't want my friends to think I'm adhering to the fad of having designer initials on everything." Vuitton will still make its standard initialed line for those who wish to be walking billboards...