Word: plain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plain English, it means that Universities will rarely be held strictly to the letter of their own rules,” Silverglate said...
...menus made setting up and learning to use this device a bear. Once you get past those hurdles, the R75, which records onto DVD+RWs (rewritable) and DVD+R (single recording only) discs, works just fine. I especially liked the thumbnail previews of recorded shows, as opposed to the plain-text listings on other models. Still, the original $699 list price seemed about $100 too steep, which may be why Philips recently lowered...
...problem. Young men in uniform, eager to get home, dismissive or just plain ignorant of local customs and unable to express themselves with anything more than a vein-popping scream and a brandished machine gun. "You are f_____g around. Just f___ off!" a soldier yelled at an Iraqi who was trying to visit the regional governor's residence in Kirkuk last week. (Every Iraqi, sadly, already knows the F word.) "The American soldier is, please excuse the word, very high-handed," says Abu Mousa, a veteran Iraqi journalist. Much more worrisome: some Iraqis believe the U.S. troops are light...
Part of that feeling of home is the ever-changing lingo that Chris and Sam brought from Jamaica Plain to Harvard. The word “such” is an important piece. Statements like “He’s such a guy,” or “He’s such a kid,” or “This is such a reality” pepper the room’s speech...
...roommates prepare to leave Harvard, they say they will miss these conversations, interspersed as they often are with joking, semi-insulting nicknames and, of course, the Jamaica Plain dialect...