Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guard with whom James Earl Ray had his connection ... took his share off the top and mailed the rest to one of the Ray family members, in plain envelopes that bore no return address. He sent it in $100 bills, wrapped in a piece of plain paper. He sent some to Jerry. It was addressed to Box 22, Wheeling, Ill. When Jerry got the money, he would write "O.K." on a piece of paper and mail it back...
...only carry half a dozen riders at a time. The Woolworth Building leans crazily, canted forward like a gothic shed in the wind. Its terra cotta façade has become a wedding cake of writhing mullions and bulging cornices; the windows glow green, and inside in plain view there are people yelling at file clerks, chasing secretaries and munching what are probably pastrami sandwiches. On the roof, like a lizard on a rock, there is a goofy dragon; its tail is dollar bills, its hide is plated with nickels for scales. As its pink wings flap, its head lolls...
Deprived of its meaning in this way, the reliquary takes on odd similarities to modern art. The plain metal foot borne upward on its ornate, gilded and enameled pedestal Is surrealist in its incongruity. Our uncertainty about its contents-not only whether Mary Magdalene's foot is in it, but also whether it contains a real foot of any kind-recalls Marcel Duchamp's A Bruit Secret, two metal plates sandwiching a ball of twine inside which a small "thing," forever unidentified, rattles when shaken...
Ever since the 1973 oil embargo, once plain-looking companies that produced coal and other natural resources have been eagerly pursued as merger partners. Oil companies in particular have been looking them over as a means of getting in on the development of alternative sources of energy...
Secret Service agents were not allowed to accompany the Americans. The visitors were taken by Chinese escorts in Chinese limousines for the ten-minute drive to the plain, yellowish home of the Chairman. Ford's car was driven into a carpeted portico. The Americans walked down a long hallway where Mao's famous Ping Pong table stands. Part way down the hall, the party was directed left into Mao's study. He was sitting in a light green overstuffed chair. A nurse helped the 81-year-old Mao stand up and he greeted the Ford family first...