Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pell grant of $760 and a $1,700 federal loan to pay for her education. Sipping a Bud Light with her sister-in-law at The Bowler, Brown takes the news of the probable cuts in stride. "If they cut it all out, I would make do," says the plain-speaking brunet, who lost her long-distance-operator job at AT&T in a 1987 restructuring and has worked on and off since as a housecleaner and a cashier. "People here will figure out a way to get by. We're good at looking after our needs." Her sister...
...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...
Chinos are undoubtedly convenient. That extra fabric in the pleats hides any number of physical abnormalities. It's neither creative nor solution-oriented to wear the same style from the days of your six-pack to the days of your beer-gut. It's just plain lazy. Although an informercial currently in heavy rotation does offer a wrinkle and stain-free pair of those classic chinos, (for the low low price of $29.95!) one should remember that trousers are not wall-to-wall carpeting...
...soon to tell whether the Oklahoma City bombing will also be a transforming moment in our national life, one of those episodes that make us take stock of ourselves and what it means to be an American. It's already plain that the explosion did more than just remind us that terrorism happens. In a nation that has entertained and appalled itself for years with hot talk on the radio and the campaign trail, the inflamed rhetoric of the '90s is suddenly an unindicted co-conspirator in the blast. As for antigovernment sentiment, so long as Americans are fretful about...
During the first few months of 1949, direct negotiations were conducted under U.N. auspices between Israel and each of the invading countries (except Iraq, which refused to negotiate with Israel), resulting in armistice agreements that reflected the situation at the end of the fighting. Accordingly, the coastal plain, Galilee and the entire Negev came within Israel's sovereignty. The Gaza Strip came under Egyptian administration, and the West Bank and Eastern Jerusalem came under Jordanian rule. These were subsequently annexed to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which never thought it necessary to establish an independent Palestinian state in the newly...