Word: plate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...separated from her husband, and does not trust her neighbors. Inside, she shows us her shabby living room, the dim bedroom she shares with her son, a rudimentary bathroom and a dank kitchen equipped with a leaky sink, hot plate and ancient refrigerator. Its contents: beans, rice and a frozen three-month-old piece of chicken that she is saving for two-year-old Rolando. "The state gives you six pounds of rice a month, but we eat that in three ; days," she says. When her rations ran out the week before, she sold her grandmother's 10-year...
...mind being a minor criminal, participate in the Tupperware plan yourself. Third, if you do participate in the current program, take Martin S. Feldstein '61 out to dinner with you. Take up a collection to pay for his meal--society owes him at least a plate of General...
...George Brett brought his hallowed career as third baseman/first baseman/designated hitter for the Kansas City Royals to a classy close by kissing home plate after his last game. "Lou," as he is known to Kansas City faithful (long story), a resident of Mission Hill, Kans., had a .308 career batting average over 19 seasons, batted a whopping .390 in 1980 (where were you, Cal Ripken?), led the Royals to a World Series Championship in 1985, finished fifth in the state in the 1980 Presidential General Election, was said to have had the best pickup lines in the city before getting...
Detective Thomas Simas, who was working with Detective Hubert "Dick" Estes, was performing a surveillance duty on North Harvard St. near the Business School parking lot at 219 Western Ave. Around three o'clock Thursday afternoon, the two detectives spotted and checked the license plate of a suspicious car, Lt. John F. Rooney said yesterday...
...probably not the subject of most great discussions in the dining halls at Harvard. For many students, the much-maligned bird is simply an alternative to a plate of foliage or grilled cheese for the third consecutive evening...