Word: plate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supplying a heavy piece of change was slender, soft-spoken Del Webb, ex-minor-league pitcher who 16 years ago moved to Phoenix, Ariz., parlayed a saw and hammer into a million-dollar construction business. The other big moneyman was Marine Corps Captain Dan Topping, heir to a tin-plate fortune and owner of the Brooklyn Football Tigers.* The man with the ideas was baseball's brilliant screwball, redheaded Colonel Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail -who aging ex-Boss Ed Barrow once said would buy the Yankees "over my dead body...
When it came time to eat, Mrs. Ettesvold took up a plate, found a chair, and sat down. Everyone else was standing. Another woman walked up, introduced herself and said: "My father gave $5,000 to this campaign and here I am, standing...
...leaving food on its plate. Worried, the Quartermaster Corps ordered nutrition experts to investigate. Last week the experts reported that the WACs were doing their best, advised the Army to quit trying to founder its women with regular G.I. rations (potatoes for breakfast, double helpings...
...well out of range of the island's defenses." His mouth was dry ("spitting cotton"), his hands were drenched in icy sweat, his heart beat so hard he could feel its throb. Over the target "there was a strong impulse to seek the shelter of any available armor plate in the cockpit. A sensation of helplessness left a deep impression; the idea of having nothing to do but watch and wait was not appealing...
...most professional new cinema outfit. International Pictures (Casanova Brown, Woman at the Window). As a musicomic vehicle for Gypsy Rose Lee, it is hampered not only by its own slowfootedness but by the fact that Miss Lee, America's most literate ecdysiast, has learned to silver-plate her sex with such cultivated English that she suggests Lady Windermere's Fan Dance...