Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Outskated, outsized, and just plain outdueled, the Harvard men's hockey team dropped its season finale to the ECAC playoff-bound Golden Knights of Clarkson, 7-3, Saturday night in Potsdam...
...Emerald Isle has one of the few playable golf courses (eleven holes) in the Lesser Antilles. Its beaches are of black volcanic sand; the only white sand beach can be reached by a mountain hike or a charter sail. While the food is more plain than fancy, there is one excellent restaurant, Café le Cabotin. The best show in town is at the Vue Pointe, a 40-room bungalow-cottage complex. The hotel becomes le tout Montserrat on Wednesday nights, when steel bands like the Montserrat Symphony perform...
...January 23-30 Forbert skips randomly from the "plain on the old runway," to "drinking beers in the honky tonk," to riding out to a country bridge," then asks "where am I when the preacher speaks?" If the attempt is impressionistic or stream of consciousness, the result is complete confusion. This song also epitomizes forbert's lyrical ineptitude. Forbert doesn't include a sheet of lyrics with his album, and with such profundities...
...caucus in Des Moines just when the tally there showed him to be a big winner. "I'm on cloud nine!" he shouted. "You made my night!" Then he asked an aide: "But what does this mean?" When the statewide results were in, the meaning was plain enough and Bush exulted with raised eyebrows and a self-satisfied grin: "We have done the unthinkable when everyone put us down as an asterisk four months...
...Pentagon papers-in his view, they were all protected by the First Amendment. Dissenting in 1951 from the conviction of Communist Party leaders for advocating the overthrow of the Government, Douglas wrote: "Free speech-the glory of our system of Government-should not be sacrificed on anything less than plain and objective proof of danger that the evil advocated is imminent...