Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could have been nerves, lack of experience, or plain bad luck. Whatever the reason for the loss, the icewomen will have a chance to redeem themselves when they travel to Brown tonight for their second game of the year...
...more accustomed to being the Pied Pipers of Middle America, marching jauntily out front with majorities forming obediently behind. Being deserted is a frustrating experience. Reston sighed that "the people don't want to hear." Another view is that most voters decided the media heavyweights were just plain wrong. They were certainly out of touch...
Richard Scammon, a seasoned political analyst, says the malady is old-fashioned "ivory toweritis." The intellectuals and their allies in politics and journalism have got farther above ground level than ever before, he insists. They do not feel the raw emotions of plain people, even though they frequently journey to the outlands to inspect the species. The experts are engrossed in telling the voters what they ought to believe and do, not in listening to what is on their minds...
...three elegant ceramic pots made between 3500 and 2500 B.C., one with incised designs, that were placed atop the legs of a buried body; a large vessel with an intricate scroll pattern, dated 3000 to 2000 B.C., that was used to inter a two-year-old child, and a plain cup found near by that might have contained food for the baby; and two iron spearheads with bronze sockets (to hold wooden handles), dated 800 to 400 B.C., which are among the oldest iron objects found in eastern Asia...
...horse was his chief image of social harmony: order on four legs. No wonder that, in such paintings as Eclipse at Newmarket, With a Groom and a Jockey, circa 1770, the plain rubbing-down houses on Newmarket Heath look like neo-Egyptian shrines, pyramids of the turf. They are, so to speak, the temples of Stubbs' Utopia, a place adjacent to Jonathan Swift's imaginary country of the Houyhnhnms, those sagacious and moralizing horses...