Word: plate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's okay, Bobby," Jackson said compassionately. "Let 'em wait until you're ready. Take your time. Just make sure you're ready." Fisk slapped him on the butt and retreated to the plate...
Fisk spat a chaw of tobacco in front of home plate and trotted up to Bobby. Al Jackson came out of the dugout, looking more than a bit distraught...
None of these ponderous matters bothered the Argentines in the least. In the big three-tiered River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, at the outset of a first-round game between Argentina and Italy, the Argentine fans filled the floodlit night sky with a spectacular storm of torn-up paper. The shock waves set off by their cheering were perceptible as much by the skin of the face and the soles of the feet as by the ears. Italy won when the elusive Roberto Bettega slipped away from the defense and scored the game's only goal...
...Tuzo Wilson, the Canadian geophysicist who championed continental drift and plate tectonics long before many of his conservative colleagues would even consider these theories...
...Paris, the unsuspecting tourist may wander into a deceptively simple-looking restaurant and pay $20 for a plate of fresh asparagus and $217 for a bottle of Château Latour '55. The Paris Sheraton, which on the luxury scale is about equivalent to a better-class U.S. motel, charges $90 a night for a double room. At a top restaurant in Venice or Rome, an a la carte meal for two will cost up to $50 without cocktails or wine. A room for two at a first-class hotel averages about $35 a night...