Word: plate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was plenty more for the Fenway faithful to applaud--stand-ins Bob Montgomery (behind the plate for sore-armed Carlton Fisk) and Jack Brohamer (playing third base until Butch Hobson is ready to throw again) each banged out a double and a triple. Montgomery added a single, and Brohamer turned three nifty plays at the hot corner to lift one burden off the shoulders of New England...
...latest measurement of Carter's popular standing. Only 36% of those surveyed gave the President an overall favorable rating. When he goes to California this week in an effort to drum up support, Carter will find some Democrats openly hostile. Not only are the $1,000-a-plate tickets for the Democratic National Committee dinner moving slowly, but some onetime Carter supporters have formed a group called Democrats for Change, 1980, and are staging a rival dinner. Says one of them, TV Producer Norman Lear: "What we need more than anything else is someone to give us a sense...
...bothered to read them, and had relied on the advice of others that they were accurate. Said Buckley: "I did not even know what a 10-K was [at the time]. I live in a world in which people are simply unaware of the uses of boiler plate...
...first stop was Atlanta, where the Vice Premier was welcomed enthusiastically by 1,500 people at a $20-a-plate luncheon in the ballroom of the gleaming 73-story Peachtree Plaza Hotel. The guests included former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, once an implacable foe of Chinese Communism, who chatted amiably during lunch with Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua. In the audience were several hundred bankers and heads of corporations, and Teng directed most of his remarks toward them. Said...
...License-plate slogans tend to be innocuous boasts of a state's famous product: corn, copper, sunshine, lakes, Lincoln, enchantment. From 1969 on, New Hampshire car owners had a more forceful phrase, LIVE FREE OR DIE, and it drove some of them to distraction. Motorist George Maynard, feeling the slogan confined him to the right lane, went all the way to the Supreme Court in 1977 with his refusal to pay a $75 fine for blotting out the offending words on his plates. The court ruled in his favor...