Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flows over the collars of modified Elizabethan shirts, stage gear long out of favor. The music has no labyrinthine lyrics or arcane chord changes. Seger still opens his show with Tina Turner's good-humored, hard-rocker Nutbush City Limits, and the song sets the tone for what follows: plain good times...
...thought he had gone and sat down, when he suddenly came up and thanked me." Pat agrees. "There's more closeness in this House than in the other Houses--it's like one big happy family." She disappears into the kitchen and returns a moment later with a plain pink card bearing the inscription, "To the dining hall staff for cooking up all those good times! THANK YOU! Tom (Trouble) Quint and Tony (T) Brown." The manager of the Lowell House kitchen, Mrs. Daley, says, "Kids come in late and we have open house. I don't mind it, though...
Benchley's impact in some ways was more telling than Frankfurter's. The funniest writer in America was suffused with solemnity. His words were simple, edged with incredulous sorrow that the machinery of law, manipulated by prejudiced men, should mangle the rights and lives of two plain people...
...longtime backer of liberal causes. To nearly everyone's surprise, Mondale delivered a toughly worded speech accusing the Kremlin of mounting "a continuing buildup of unprecedented proportions in Europe." In addition, he attacked the Soviets for deploying the SS-20 missile. Though the Vice President made it plain that "no nation can be asked to reduce its defenses below the threat it faces," he did make one substantive proposal to the disarmament assembly. This was an offer to provide supersophisticated U.S.-built electronic monitoring systems for surveillance of arms and policing any disarmament agreements. Mondale declared the U.S. would...
Leape said Dr. Robert Beran, associate director of the Division of Educational Measurement and Research, told her that the AAMC is going to rescore the tests but she "couldn't get him to tell me in plain English" how it is going...