Word: plain
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...just...wanted to tell you all...how much you all've eased our plain this week," he mumbled into the microphone...
...Increase lighting in the Yard at night. The University claims that lights would detract from the nocturnal beauty of ancient brick edifices. But there is little difference between subtle and just plain dangerous when it comes to lighting at night in Cambridge...
...Saturday, a member of the prince's entouragepushed the camera of Crimson reporter Joshua A.Gerstein '91-92 into his face, Gerstein said.Gerstein, who said he was taking pictures ofmembers of the prince's family and securitypersonnel, said that plain-clothes Cambridgepolice officers standing nearby refused to take areport about the incident...
...foreign defenders have saved Saudi Arabia from Saddam so far, but at the same time the influx of troops has underscored the country's vulnerability. Like the boy who called the bluff on the emperor's new clothes, the Iraqi leader made it plain that Saudi Arabia was not quite the muscular Arab power it appeared to be. "Saddam showed that we are a paper tiger," notes an economist in Riyadh. "Our ability to defend ourselves is a joke." That realization augurs a revamping of the Saudi military. Less easily fixed is the ! breach of the implicit contract between...
...results are spectacular. The structure, built on a slope, is dominated by a soaring Amazonian rain forest, lush with 300 species of plants. At its periphery, tree ferns and bromeliads flank a stream that leads to a mountainside flood-plain forest and an open vista of tropical savanna. There, plants from Africa, Australia and South America bask in a less humid atmosphere, where bees and hummingbirds help pollinate plants and a colony of termites aids in the decomposition of dying material...