Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...optimistic outlook is controversial," he said. "It was interesting in that the people who were most isolated, like those in South and East Boston, thought race relations had improved. Those who were less optimistic lived in mixed racial neighborhoods, like Mattapan or Jamaica Plain...
...violations stories increases too." The contras inside Nicaragua are being supplied by clandestine airdrops, a dangerous technique. But if the resupply holds up and the money continues to flow, the contras are expected to step up their attacks by the summer and move into the strategically important Pacific coastal plain...
...instance of a writing without speech. Speech is but a means through which the word may be uttered, it is not the word itself"); the kinship of the oppressed ("Friday's desires are not dark to me. He desires to be liberated, as I do too. Our desires are plain, his and mine"); and historical irony ("Even in his native Africa, dumb and friendless, would ((Friday)) know freedom? There is an urging that we feel, all of us, in our hearts, to be free; yet which of us can say what freedom truly...
...questions then remain: why did Harvard falter, and what will happen next year? Surely part of the Crimson's problem was just plain bad luck. When you lose that many games by just a few points, you're almost certainly getting more than your share of bad bounces...
Nancy Reagan measurably moved into power on that singular love of theirs. A person who gathered with the family to talk about the crisis said it was plain that for the moment she was the stronger of the two. "Then her strength made him seem weaker," added this friend. "You want something done?" whispered one of the old California gang during this time. "Then talk to Nancy. When I see them at night, I talk with him about three minutes and with her 20 minutes...