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  • The new pretzel-filled variety has fewer calories (180) but way more sodium (180 mg vs. plain's 25 mg).

    Super thin Super Bowl spread Jennifer LaRue Huget 2011

  • This legislation opens 400,000 acres of the ANWR coastal plain's 1.5 million acres—land specifically set aside by a 1980 federal law for oil and natural-gas development.

    What's the Hold-Up on Alaskan Oil? Sean Parnell 2012

  • As for the peanut and almond versions, each has less saturated fat 4.5 and 4 grams vs. plain's 6, but because they're bigger, you get fewer pieces per serving.

    Super thin Super Bowl spread Jennifer LaRue Huget 2011

  • That expands the flood plain's natural capacity to absorb rising water, which scientists say will lessen damage from floods like those expected this spring.

    To The River, The Spoils 2008

  • The water, trying to force its way into the plain's glutinous deep time, was pushed out of the way by the continual tumble from behind, and so the fan formed.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • I know it isn't the fruited plain's fault, nor the spacious skies: it's my goddamn fellow Americans who are to blame for this.

    6/30/03 Brooklyn, NY A few 2003

  • I know it isn't the fruited plain's fault, nor the spacious skies: it's my goddamn fellow Americans who are to blame for this.

    6/6/03 Columbia County, NY At 2003

  • Where the wondrous pageant of the plain's history, and the history of the worlds it connected, were all remembered, in as much detail as Shivetya had cared to witness at the time.

    Soldiers Live Cook, Glen 2000

  • He was in his middle thirties and he had a reputation to make, but first he had to finish off the Mahrattas, and that meant taking Gawilghur, and to that end he was now riding towards the great rampart of cliffs that sealed off the plain's northern edge.

    Sharpe's Fortress Cornwell, Bernard 1999

  • It was the same kind of rock as the plain's surface off the road.

    She Is The Darkness Cook, Glen 1997

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