Word: plainly
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...election into the Academy in an e-mail. “One never knows quite why some people are selected and others are not, but I assume it is partly a response to scholarship, partly to my broader work as a teacher, editor, and administrator, and partly due to plain good luck...
Retailers like Wal-Mart and Home Depot are quietly replacing common items with more expensive versions, driving up the price of an average basket at their stores. Think of a plain gas grill replaced by a fancier one for $20 more. Sure, you get a warming tray, but you still pay more to grill your burgers...
...time when we put overwhelming demands on ourselves and others to be superstars, superheroes and superwomen, Keillor reminds us that most people are just plain folks. Jean-Paul Pegeron Ann Arbor, Mich...
...Stetson hats and long winter travels. Although they focus on the ordinary stuff of life, their truths, at least to cowboys, seem no less eternal than those penned by William Shakespeare. Some cowboy poems are bust-a-gut funny; a few are downright dirty. And some are just plain awful. But many carry an honest, primitive power, like these lines from Vern Mortensen's Range Cow in Winter...
...Friday night, on plain and bare black floors, before an intimate crowd of about 100 students and family seated in no-frills fold-out chairs, Harvard’s best student dancers dabbed away beads of sweat as they showcased a program of selected student choreography at Dancers Viewpointe...