Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after giving up 11 goals in their last outing, the newly tenacious defense keyed the Crimson's win by clearing the puck quickly, checking the Terrier forwards out of play and being just plain consistent...
...fast followed the return Tuesday night of four striking inmates who spent four days in Shuttock Hospital in Jamaica Plain, where they were fed intravenously...
Speaker McCormack a resident of Jamaica Plain, had been hospitalized in New England Baptist Hospital since September 9 with low blood pressure and pneumonia and was later transferred to the Eastwood at Dedham Nursing Home where he died...
This is not opera in the Western sense, but the term still applies because the conventions of the form are so theatrical. The only backdrop on the stage is a plain curtain. The stage is carpeted. Props are few and simple. The costumes, by contrast, are spectacular, brilliantly colored and painstakingly embroidered. A mind-numbing combination of skills is required of the performers who wear those costumes: ballet, acrobatics, pantomime, acting, singing, and, I believe, some knowledge of martial arts. The music is played by an orchestra of Chinese instruments in the wings and at first sounds as strange...
...made it very plain that he does not want to be a part of the Administration, but he has also made it plain that any time I want to call upon him for missions or something of that kind, he would help...