Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason for the decline in the SATs seems to me, as the mother of two college-age children, to be as plain as the TV in our living room. The 27 hours a week spent by the average young person in front of the tube used to be devoted to that once exciting childhood pastime, reading...
Also in the capsule was a small plain envelope that bore, in a neat, modest hand, a simple message: "To the descendants of Stephen Tully and Charlotte Augusta Clarke. To be advertised in a New York paper when this box is opened." Stephen Clarke was the Tribune's financial editor from 1863 to 1869, the year he died, and inside the envelope are photographs of him, his wife Charlotte, son Henry, and daughters Charlotte and Mary Jane. The requested notice for the Clarke heirs to step forward and claim the family portraits was duly placed in the New York...
...construction at Lok Ma Chau is ever to be completed, the cannons may come in handy to slay the dragon of the parking lot. If that does not work, maybe a plain old payoff in the form of new village sidewalks will pacify the dragon...
...sure that the late President Truman's utterances on various national figures more than a decade ago will offend many readers of the forthcoming book, Plain Speaking...
...wonder if it isn't better to speak as Chief Executive with a plain tongue rather than a forked one. Truman evaluated things as he saw them and verbally put his cards on the table in a truthful, if sometimes blunt fashion...