Word: plaines
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Others expect the court to keep shooting holes in the Fourth Amendment guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Already the Justices have given police more freedom to stop passengers in airports, inspect open fields for drugs, seize evidence in "plain view" and search automobiles. But experts predict that the court will not touch the most basic safeguard, the right to counsel, and doubt that it will greatly trim back the Miranda decision, which requires police to inform suspects of their rights to counsel and against self-incrimination...
...Hungarian is knocked unconscious in the Stalinist era and miraculously comes to his senses in a hospital in 1984. To his amazement, he learns that physicians are no longer addressed as "comrade doctor" but as just plain "doctor." Moreover, János Kádár, once out of favor with the Kremlin, now leads the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party. The man's wife appears in the company of a punk rocker in black leather; she has remarried, she says, and has opened a fashion boutique. "Where am I?" moans the Hungarian. "Can this be socialism...
Diver Joseph Amaral was groping in the blackness 80 ft. below the surface of the Atlantic early this month, collecting musket balls and other artifacts from an 18th century shipwreck, when something glistened near him in the sand. A plain gold ring, the find seemed unexceptional at first in a treasure site scattered with gold doubloons, pieces of eight and other booty. But then a crew member noticed the inscription inside the ring: "In memory of my belov'd brother, Capt. John Drew, drown'd 11 Jan. 1798, aged 47." The ring had belonged to Captain James Drew...
...wind may have come sweeping down the plain in Oklahoma last week and--as far as the vote tally is concerned--scattered, this country's last official remnants of an earlier age when rum's first name was "Demon." But it's hard to tell just which way the wind really was blowing...
...Kemp didn't get where they are today because they went to college. Surely it may have helped, but they had something else, something we al appears. At the same time, however, we should not impose unrealistic expectations and requirements on people who are simply, and very happily, just plain athletes...