Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parks, our seats in the upper deck were a good five or six miles from the action. The field's dimensions are completely symmetrical--the distance down the right-field line matches the distance down the left-field line, right-center matches left-center, and a plain green 6-ft. high fence borders the outfield all the way around. The older parks were tailored for certain kinds of hitters--Yankee Stadium's short right field porch beckoned invitingly to left-handed pull hitters, while the seemingly limitless expanse in center field was known as "Death Valley." The Anaheim style spurns...
Call them seers, diviners, futurists or just plain heads-up smart. The spotters are entrepreneurs of fast mind and slim purse who have, early on, discerned a social trend, a cultural drift or an economic imperative- and made it from noodle to boodle...
...totally ignored China-an omission that Brzezinski insists will soon be corrected. Still others wrote off the Notre Dame speech as an insubstantial sermon-PIETY STRIKES AGAIN, said Britain's conservative Daily Express, while even the liberal Guardian described the speech as shot through with "obscurities, ambiguities and plain cotton wool...
...tattered through the decorous elms as Harvard staged its first normal graduation exercises since the end of World War II. The morning ceremonies that spotlighted the new graduates concluded with the awarding of honorary degrees. T.S. Eliot was among the recipients. Another was a white-haired man in a plain gray suit who rose in response to President James Bryant Conant's swift and eloquent citation: "An American to whom freedom owes an enduring debt of gratitude, a soldier and statesman whose ability and character brook only one comparison in the history of the nation...
...completely ignore[s] the moral indignation of the students" by investing in companies with activities in South Africa. Further, the Corporation, he states, consistently votes against or abstains on shareholder resolutions which would have the effect of reducing these companies' activities in apartheid South Africa. This picture is just plain incorrect...