Word: plainly
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...water's downhill rush supplies electricity to such vital operations as San Francisco's schools, municipal-transit system and international airport. If the dam were removed, that water and power would have to be replaced somehow, which is why the Public Utility Commission's Leal considers the idea "just plain goofy...
...about 1:30 on a freezing morning last winter, Jacqueline Francis, a Lesley University sophomore, finished her shift at a Jamaica Plain J.P. Licks ice cream store and started out for her apartment near Northeastern University...
Francis, the late-night worker who rode the Night Owl, said that she remembered that ridership was comprised of “almost all young people” when she took it home from Jamaica Plain. She added that the whole bus was only about one-fourth full...
According to the song’s rhyming lyrics, he innocently boarded the T at Kendall Square, changed trains downtown, and headed for a Jamaica Plain stop. But when he realized that he couldn’t pay the requisite nickel to exit, Charlie became a permanent tenant of the MBTA, journeying every afternoon to Scollay Square—better known today as the grim Government Center—to pick up a sandwich prepared by his wife...
Another reason Lincoln's writing ability was underrated was that his typically plain diction and straightforward expression were at odds with the public's expectations. The recognized standard for a statesmanlike address in mid--19th century America called for considerably more formality and pretension. The prose of acknowledged masters of that kind of writing--such as Lincoln's fellow orator at Gettysburg, Edward Everett, or Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner--generally featured elevated diction, self-consciously artful expression and a certain moral unction. Lincoln's insistence on direct and forthright language, by contrast, seemed "odd" or "peculiar," as in this...