Word: plate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second time in a row, the Stahlmen turned in a flawless performance in the field, highlighted in the sixth when Forte speared a hard drive to right and prevented a run from crossing the plate...
Along Britain's beaches one war was still on. Crouching behind armor-plate, special troops cautiously worked electrical detectors, ejector pumps, high-pressure hoses and bulldozers through the sands, hunting for buried mines. Many of these minefields had been planted by the British in hot haste, when invasion was still a day-to-day threat. Since then some location charts have been lost, some of the officers in charge have died on other missions, mines themselves have moved or been buried deep in shifting sand beds. Ninety-six officers and men have died and 26 have been wounded digging...
Coach Stahl signalled his runners a double steal which Ayres and Closky executed with finesse. When the dust had cleared, Closky had scampered across the plate, and Ayres was perched on second. A wild pitch advanced him to third and he scored the Crimson's tenth and final run when Forte grounded out to the second baseman...
...looted goods were piling up at police headquarters. In railway sheds police found stolen jewelry, liquor, etc. marked for shipment to all parts of Canada. Hundreds paraded before angry police magistrates. Typical sentences: five years for looting; three years for receiving stolen goods; two years for smashing a $100 plate-glass window...
...When the love for an old hall by a college pf dons dooms charwomen to carry coal scuttles up and slop jars down three flights of stairs, the conservatism has a flavor not idyllic. Yet kitchen help in my college almost struck last winter over the installation of a plate-washer...