Word: plaines
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...race conditions had a way of evening things out. To say the Charles River was choppy is an understatement; it was just plain nasty...
When Wilson was a first-year at what was then just plain Harvard, women were only permitted in men's dorm rooms between certain--and by today's standards tame--hours: five to seven...
...only virtuous man in Scotland. He is the voice of conscience for nobles, commoners, and the king's delegate. he even gives the future king of Scotland a pep talk/talking-to. But after the first two or three speeches, his recycled arguments about freedom and liberty get plain tedious...
...first glance, Jeanne Vertefeuille might have seemed an unlikely choice to hunt down the most damaging mole in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency. She was so plain looking, so mousy and nondescript that she would never stand out in a crowd, which suited her. She had never married, as far as anyone knew. The CIA was her life. She lived alone in a condo in McLean, Virginia, so close to the CIA's headquarters in Langley that she walked to work each day. If a co-worker stopped to offer her a lift, she would not accept unless...
...used to be proud of being a career civil servant; then I became apologetic; now I'm just plain scared. Even though the U.S. has freer elections, less corruption and lower taxes than almost any other country on earth, there are a shocking number of Americans who believe that blowing up a federal building is a blow for freedom. The antigovernment mood of this country has gone...