Word: plate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While standing pat on his infield, Samborski said he contemplated a few experiments in the outfield with a view to finding greater power at the plate...
Adolphe Menjou, the veteran Hollywood fashion plate, was writing his memoirs. While he was thinking things over, he let go a considered judgment: "Not only are movies worse than they used to be; one might even say that now they are no good...
...private person she would not come of age for three years. The question of her official debut could be put off no longer, and in 1943 the wartime Princess was officially introduced to her people in the vivid, yellow glare of the blast furnaces in a Welsh tin-plate mill. Miners, factory girls, housewives and dock hands turned out by the thousands to cheer her on a two-day tour. Denied the privilege of hailing her as Princess of Wales (she is still only Heiress Presumptive, on the supposition that a male Heir Apparent may be born to claim...
...understandably nervous. By acclamation, U.S. sport writers had made Clint Hartung the prize rookie of the year. Before his turn at bat last week in Phoenix, Ariz., he squatted down, twice picked up a handful of dirt to dry his sweating palms. Then Clint Hartung stepped to the plate for his first game in a New York Giant uniform...
...Truman, George Marshall, Louis Bromfield, Fiorello LaGuardia, Ginger Rogers are not "beautifully" penned, they at least have in common mental maturity, individualism, the desire and the capacity for absorbing new ideas, more-than-average flexibility. Thus their scripts differ from those of our contemporaries who may write a "copper plate" hand which contains the same elements as the writing they were taught at school 20 years and more ago. This subconscious clinging to the penmanship carefully learned in school so long ago is often an indication of lack of originality, inflexibility, lack of self-confidence-in short, a standstill...