Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What did happen was all-too predictable, however. A faster, stronger and just-plain-more-skillful UNH team raced to a 4-1 first-period advantage, and kept the underdogs scrambling thereafter on the way to victory...
Photographs? Preferably black-and-white. The next time you see a photograph of Stanford, look at it. Sometimes photographs come out really blurry or grainy or just plain out-of-focus. It doesn't have to be a photograph of Stanford...
...internal review process is adequate and that police are better suited to review police than civilians who haven't put in time in the trenches. There is, of course, more subtlety to the Harvard Police argument, but there isn't any more substance. That kind of thinking is just plain wrong...
...federal government subsidizes most undergraduate loans to begin with. Who better, then, to alleviate the debt burdens of students who are understandably wary of acting on their generous impulse to teach, counsel, feed, entertain or just plain help society's less fortunate members...
Naipaul's 19th book yields its pleasures slowly. Its plot is essentially the passage of ten years, during which the writer lives in a cottage on the grounds of a Victorian-Edwardian manor in a Wiltshire valley within easy walking distance of Stonehenge and Salisbury Plain. In the beginning he arrives; at the end he goes. In between, this writer (hereafter called, for the sake of convenience, Naipaul) thinks occasionally about the first 18 years of his life in Trinidad, "my insecure past," and the scholarship that took him to Oxford and England, "the other man's country." He reveals...