Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from their parents. Most of those who didn't show up gave "weakness from hour exams" as their excuse. After the actual blood-letting, the blood jars were packed in dracked ice for half an hour and then sent in pre-cooled chests to the State laboratories in Jamaica Plain...
...Eyskens would ask Parliament this week to hold a "popular consultation" on whether or not the King should return. If Leopold received less than 55% of the referendum votes, he would abdicate. He did not say what he would do if he got more than 55%. But it was plain that he would need a majority well over 55% before Parliament would actually agree to his return...
...only a plodder of average talents and plain common sense," the missionary once said of himself. "If I have been remarkable for anything, it has been for perseverance." Last week in Yokohama, a monument was raised to the remarkable plodder who was one of the first to introduce Japan to Western and Christian ideas...
third-rate education in overcrowded, ram shackle schools. This documentary focuses on the painstaking three-year fight by plain citizens of Virginia's Arlington County to get better public education for their children. By glossing over their opposition (real-estate interests, a cynical political machine), the film passes up dramatic conflict. But as a detailed primer on rescuing a down-at-heels school system, it suggests a solid public service and offers inspiring evidence that aroused parents can get results when they take their problems into their own hands...
Inside, La Flamme's is neat without being gaudy. There are no pennants and very few tonic bottles; the woodwork is distinctive, everything is quite plain and simple. La Flamme's retains a great deal from the past, because its two present owners don't believe in major changes and because that's the way its people seem to like things...