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Word: plaines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next morning, the quiet ended. Several cars pulled up to Su Casa, and 10 men in plain clothes, three or four of them Americans, rushed up to the front desk. ``Where is Room 16?'' one demanded. A hotel clerk pointed the way, and the posse ran up the stairs and knocked on the door. When Ali Mohammad opened it, they burst in. ``It was like a hurricane, a big panic,'' said Khalid Sheikh, a Karachi businessman who was staying in a room on the ground floor. ``They were dragging him downstairs. He was blindfolded, barefoot and had his hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

Make eye contact. A long gaze is enticing, flattering and plain old intriguing. Self-aware, yet not self-conscious gestures are appropriate at this point; run your fingers through your hair, light a cigarette or freestyle. Once your target knows there's something up, act casual. Although you may be impatient, it is crucial to appear disinterested for a period of time. Let them wonder, but never let them wander...

Author: By Jeremy D. Fiebert, | Title: Le Big Mack | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

Wearing a plain gray suit and accompanied by his wife Joanna, Breyer mingled with the crowd before and after the event, shaking hands and answering questions...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Breyer Visits Cambridge Chamber of Commerce | 2/14/1995 | See Source »

...anything found in a cave caused so much excitement. The paintings and engravings, more than 300 of them, amount to a sort of Ice Age Noah's ark-images of bison, mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses, of a panther, an owl, even a hyena. Done on the rock walls with plain earth pigments-red, black, ocher-they are of singular vitality and power, and despite their inscrutability to modern eyes, they will greatly enrich our picture of Cro-Magnon life and culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEHOLD THE STONE AGE | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...existence of the log was discovered, HASCS took a week to close it down; the day after it was closed down, an automatic system re-engaged it. It was only when The Crimson made HASCS aware of this that the file was finally closed down. This is technical incompetence, plain and simple...

Author: By Theodore K. Gideonse, | Title: HASCS Is Watching | 2/10/1995 | See Source »

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