Normally this is the throw-away part of the building, dead plain.
Run-of-the-mill New York architecture of that period and later was plain, usually dead plain, on the back.
Yet, as with the British and everyone else from the Mongols to the Russians, it seemed dead plain that things would end badly.
On the dead plain white brick power plant smokestack, on the north side of 70th Street, the architects inserted two swastikas, on the east- and west-facing sides, along with Greek crosses on the north and south sides.
"If my son was not at the war, he would not be dead, plain and simple," the mother tells AP. "He was a strong healthy boy.... Don't tell me it was unrelated to the war.
Arkia, Israel's domestic airline, provides regular service to a small airfield on the adjacent Dead Sea plain.
Fig. 1 Nine ceramic vessels, Jordan, Dead Sea Plain, Bab edh-Dhra, Cemetery A, Tomb A 72 South, Early Bronze Age (EB IA), c. 3100 BCE, The University of Melbourne Art Collection.
The village of Zahrat adh-Dhra'1 (contemporaneous with Tell el-Hayyat) on the arid, sparsely populated Dead Sea Plain relied less on dung fuel, and similarly harvested wood from orchards, while also utilizing the desert trees Acacia and Tamarix.
Many marketplaces are just plain dead.
Shackleton described it as a "dead, smooth, white plain, weird beyond description".
