Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Puopolo's roommates said yesterday that although Puopolo's family life meant more to him than anything else, he was a well-rounded individual with a wide range of friends in Jamaica Plain, where he grew up, in the North End and in the Harvard community...
Back in the early 1930s my aunt, who lived in Manchester, Conn., introduced us to a new game called Bottle Tops, so called because it was played with the pasteboard tops then used on glass milk bottles. They were plain on one side and had the name of the dairy printed on the other. The playing board was a piece of manila paper marked off in 64 squares like a checkerboard. We called it the depression game...
Sept. 17, 1975. We're here in New York doing preproduction. The script is in great shape. Now we've got not only spies and terrorists and plain old cops, but also oil millionaires, Saudi Arabian ambassadors and the whole U.N. General Assembly. I smoothed out the plot with Alan Trustman, who once wrote Bullitt. Cornelia will be swell in the picture...
...back to Acapulco. Jack Real was instructed to rustle up a jet plane, and the aides located Dr. Thain through his secretary. The plane picked up the doctor in Fort Lauderdale late Sunday night and rushed him back to the Mexican resort and his dying patient. [When it became plain that Hughes would have to be moved, he was washed and barbered.] Equipment for intravenous feeding was flown in from Los Angeles...
Speeches warmed the air of otherwise chilly December days last week as politicos, a film maker, a pornographic film star, and even an Indian holy man all descended on Harvard for panel discussions, informal talks and plain, out-and-out lectures...