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Word: plaines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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That's just plain wrong. Those who attended Friday night's 53-51 loss to Penn remember that superstar Perry Bromwell-who eventually sunk a game-winning 18-ft, jumper with four seconds remaining-did not start the ballgame...

Author: By Bob Chnha, | Title: Class Conflicts | 2/26/1985 | See Source »

...disintegration into state capitalism. Under state capitalism, communist countries must oppress their own workers in order to compete with capitalist nations. The Soviet Union had followed this path away from genuine socialism since Fenin's death and Itotsky's flight from Stalin, and Carr's evidence makes plain the price Spain paid for the USSR's actions...

Author: By D. JOSEPH Menn, | Title: Losing Sight of the Revolution | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...Bomby, as well as in The Plain Truth, a fundamentalist magazine, creationists argue the beetle could not possibly have evolved separate chambers of chemicals that, in the event of a genetic misstep, would have blown the insect up. A prominent member of the Institute for Creation Research, Duane Gish, who holds a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, contends the beetle would not have any use for its storage, temperature and aiming facilities until they were completely formed. Says he: "I would challenge Dr. Eisner to sketch out how an ordinary beetle could evolve into a bombardier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Drafting the Bombardier Beetle ^ | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...post-Olympics hard times, the three have been all over the track. Either Lewis is already the actor he aspires to be, or his inner conflict has been exaggerated. "I'm just a happy person," he says, a plain enough declaration. "I listen to my body," he adds, a more complicated matter. Lewis is probably the best athlete in the world, though definitely not the best liked. The problem is his disposition: people ask more of him than he requires of himself. He perplexed them last summer by prompting expectations he did not attempt to fulfill. That is, no heroic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Costly Deficiency of Style | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

...business of Witness, which is one of the most originally conceived and gracefully made suspense dramas of recent years, to work into edgy juxtaposition the representatives of two subcultures that are ordinarily mutually exclusive. Those dark figures in the fields are Amish, members of the plainest of the plain (and pacifist) religious sects. Their faith forbids them to use the paraphernalia of modern life. They work their Pennsylvania farms without benefit of electricity or the internal combustion engine, and as a result lead lives that seem to the frantic urban outsider idyllic, exemplary and very fragile. That is precisely what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Afterimages Witness | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

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