Word: plate
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...lose two games, 10-1 and 4-3, to put itself four games behind the Red Rolfe Division-leading Bulldogs (11-10, 7-3), but it also lost captain Mike Giardi in the first game and starting pitcher junior Scott Davidson in the nightcap. The home-plate umpire ejected Giardi from the first game after a called third strike in the top of the third inning with the score tied...
...assumed totemic significance for a cult of followers who regard her as St. Sylvia, the high priestess of suffering. On Feb. 11, 1963, she put her head in a gas oven in her London apartment as her two children, for whom she had left glasses of milk and a plate of bread and butter, slept in a nearby bedroom. Plath's husband Ted Hughes, a great poet who is now England's poet laureate, had left her months earlier for another woman. Before her death, few had ever heard of the 30-year-old American expatriate. But with the posthumous...
...Everybody has great secrets," Waters says cheerfully, "and I want to know them all. I like to find things that can surprise me and confuse me and scare me and make me laugh." His current research involves the kinky pastime known as sploshing -- the erotic act of dumping a plate of food on your loved one. "When I hear about something like this," he says, "at first I'm shocked. And suddenly I feel very healthy." Waters' films have often made viewers feel healthy -- by default. The 1972 underground smash Pink Flamingos was about the "Filthiest People Alive" and climaxed...
...that brilliant fall day when I first walked around the Yard in search of my dorm, I was struck by the beauty of the other buildings I passed. As I happened across the proud Gothic edifice with lovely, inviting stairwells close to Johnston Gate, I prayed that the name plate would say Canaday. How my heart sagged when I discerned the name "Matthews" instead...
Fair enough, but I respond with two points. Why the hell are they on the course? Put them in a booth like all other announcers. You don't see John Madden on the 20-yard line calling the game. Or Harry Carey set up camp behind home plate...