Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really not sure what to do. Only you can help me, Norma. The situation has gone from just bad to just plain unbelievable. It would be one thing if my roommate were only cheating on some random girl, but the girl he's cheating on is my best friend! Poor Sally! If she knew, she'd give birth to an elephant. Sally's such a great girl. She's sweet, outgoing and smart. I just can't figure out why my roommate's doing this to her. To complicate matters, I think I'm falling in love with her. Should...
...What are they--plain stupid?" asks Wisconsin resident Gloria Brown, who makes $6 an hour and has two children who qualify for free lunch at school...
When asked why he has a .plan, Aaron Y. Mandel '97 (e-mail: amandel@fas) answers, "For essentially the same reason as I'd rather wear a t-shirt from a concert or convention or other nifty thing than a plain one. People get a kick out of seeing their favorite author quoted in someone else's .plan, which is probably at the back of many minds when .plans are written." Mandel's current .plan is a collage of sorts containing huge blocks of "obscure" song lyrics and quotes of things that have been said to him "which...
...Saturday night, it seemed without a doubt that those words rang true. Not just because of the way the team played, but more because of the plain truth that Harvard had reclaimed its home-ice advantage...
...STRUCTURE PROBLEM: At least there are some models of the cosmos-unpopular though they may be-that accommodate Freedman's age estimates. The same cannot be said for Lauer and Postman's detection of large-scale motions across the universe. Most scientists are betting that their observation is just plain wrong, but they haven't yet been able to pinpoint why. And both Lauer and Postman admit that the effect may wash out as they collect more data from deeper in space...