Word: plate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemy's damned radar-controlled searchlights and guns off our actually large formations. . .It was kind of comforting to hide behind a "window" screen-with the big accurate flak laying on the tin foil below and behind us, rather than on the steel foil armor plate we were sitting...
...Manhattan, Adolf Hitler's custom-built, gangster-model Mercedes-Benz (135-m.p.h. speed, bulletproof glass, adjustable armored plate) was delivered to its buyer, a man named Christopher G. Janus. Having done more looking backward than ahead, Janus admitted: "Now that I've got it, I'm not sure . . . what to do with...
...that mean that ECA wanted none of the grain from bulging River Plate elevators? Not exactly, answered Hensel, but Argentina would have to "go out and get the market"-i.e., bargain with the U.S. ECA's terms: 1) no more price-gouging (Eire recently paid $6.85 a bushel for Argentine wheat-July futures at Chicago are now $2.31); 2) no more state trading practices such as have throttled U.S. business firms in Argentina; 3) a pledge that Argentina will underwrite some of the costs of feeding Europe...
...strode to the plate against the Cubs and tapped an easy grounder to the pitcher. While the pitcher was taking his time handling the ball, Ashburn was streaking for first base-and got there before the throw. The home folks beamed. Then he stole second base (the first of three he stole that game). Richie beat out another hit by sheer speed. Said one Phillies' coach: "I know I sound silly, but he's the nearest thing to Ty Cobb on the bases I've ever seen...
Yale's captain George Bush is weakly regarded at the plate, but his glove work around first base has been extraordinary. One New Haven publication recently called him one of the finest fielding first sackers in the country, "including the major leagues...