Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another problem with developing, said other residents such as Peter V. Cignetti III, is that the site is in the middle of a floodplain. Disturbing the plain, Cignetti said, may cause flooding problems in residential homes near the site...
...progress in the polls hung on the walls, and the entire scene was dominated by a color-coded map of Russia with Post-it notes describing the vote expected in the nation's various regions. A safe stood unused, and documents intended for a shredder remained intact, in plain view...
...pure as Genvieve, replete with little bows and white gloves, that even she seems relieved by her deflowerment. Her feline mother slinks about in tight black cocktail dresses and blood red suits, exuding sheer power via over-ripe sensuality and bartering Genvieve off to the highest bidder. Madeline, the 'plain girl' whom Guy eventually settles for, looks exactly like the goody-good martyr she is, with immaculately well brushed hair and the inevitable hairband. Measured against these luscious charicatures of the many faces of woman, the two male characters are almost obliterated...
...plausible scenario, at least. But whatever the reason, Olmec society was in full flower by 1200 B.C., at a place known as San Lorenzo, on a fertile plain overlooking the Chiquito River. Like all the known Olmec sites, San Lorenzo is much less impressive than the Mayan cities that dot the Yucatan peninsula to the east. One reason: it supported only a few thousand people, rather than 100,000 or more. The major buildings and plazas were little more than earthen mounds covered with grass, lacking any sort of masonry facade and probably topped with pole-and-thatch houses...
...They'll discuss anything, that is, but the pressure they actually feel about the Big Day, which is July 28, in Gainesville, Georgia. Still, like the Olympic rings that Amy Fuller has tattooed on her rear end, the will to win is there, if not always in plain view...