Word: plain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apparently just plain bad luck that as the tanker American Trader was unloading off Southern California's Huntington Beach last week, a sudden swell caused an anchor to tear a 3-ft. gash in the ship's forward compartment. Working by night, the crew plugged the hole within four hours, but an estimated 300,000 gal. of crude poured into the Pacific. At week's end the oil slick covered a 30-sq.-mi. area and was starting to foul beaches and wildlife refuges...
...have allowed the U.S. to keep an additional 30,000 soldiers on the continent outside Central Europe -- in Britain and Turkey, for example. The Soviet leader rejected that asymmetry, saying he would accept either 195,000 or 225,000 for both sides. Whatever the final total, Gorbachev made it plain he agrees with Bush that the changes in Eastern Europe allow sizable reductions in forces. But he also in effect accepted Bush's premise that the U.S. should retain a large military presence in Europe...
...subjects whether they are virgins, if the answer is crucial to my research? Why do I have to obscure my scientific inquiry in a plain brown wrapper...
...writing, for the most part, is uninspired. A harsher critic might say that it is just plain dull. Almost never does a sentence in How Harvard Rules cry out to be read...
...delivered to the government prior to his tea with Botha last July. In it he urged both the A.N.C. and the government to "meet urgently to negotiate an effective political settlement." But he also made it clear exactly where he stood. "White South Africa," he wrote, "must accept the plain fact that the A.N.C. will not suspend, to say nothing of abandoning, the armed struggle until the government agrees to negotiate" with recognized black leaders. In addition, wrote Mandela, white South Africans will have to "accept that there will never be peace and stability in this country" until the principle...