Word: plain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush the ideal President to articulate such an ambiguous policy. It's hard to tell when he's being clever and when he's plain inarticulate. Bush, says one White House aide, "figures people should leave him alone to do what he decides is best. His attitude is 'This is very complicated. You just wouldn't understand.' " An Administration official adds that whether the White House on any given day stresses its hopes for peace or its willingness to fight sometimes "has been determined by the President's mood or the questions he gets...
...members of ACT-UP find Senator Helms' political stands objectionable, there can be no justification for the advocacy of murder as a means of silencing Mr. Helms or his supporters. ACT-UP claims to be concerned with protecting life (through increased AIDS research), but it is plain that they are only interested in protecting the lives of people whose morals (or lack of same) agree with theirs...
Rudyard Kipling notwithstanding, Mandalay has neither flying fishes nor even a bay; Burma's second city sits on an arid plain. For the clergy of the Phaya- gyi monastery, however, the dawn really did come up like thunder one morning last week as government troops raided the 206-year-old pagoda and arrested about 20 of its monks...
...magic was to inspire foot soldiers and generals alike, blending English lords with plain Americans, reconciling and focusing the energies of haughty, contentious commanders such as Britain's Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery and the U.S Third Army's General George Patton. Holding the trust of the grandiloquent politicians such as Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt was just as challenging. It took all Ike had and four packs of Camels...
What every happened to "weird," or "strange" or even plain old "unusual...