Word: plate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more expensive prints were purchased through an engraver, who either sold you the actual engraving plate (at a much more expensive price) or a single print off the plate. One could purchase the cheaper "etching," a process in which the artist scratched out places that he wanted to appear dark upon printing on a metal plate, or the more expensive "engraving." Engravings involved much more skill on the part of the artist; it took many years to train the hand to hold the carving utensil that shaped the metal beneath...
...Boston, the loss is immense. Vaughn's bulky presence behind the plate brought the fans to life game after game; when he stepped to the plate, there was reason to hope that the Sox might steal a game--might even, eventually, steal a World Series title for the first time since the end of World War I. With Vaughn gone, there will only be more sadness among Boston's long-suffering faithful...
...woman, yes. She lived in Dunster House. I saw her often. Too often. The sight of her made me shudder. Her touch made me cringe. She had a shrill voice--her vowels sounded like the moan of a dolphin, her consonants vaguely like a knife scratching against a china plate...
...Friday, it must be pig cells. After Thursday's debacle over the supposed fusing of genetic tissue from a man and a cow, another small biotech firm has stepped up to the plate with a possible use for barnyard-animal DNA. But Alexion Pharmaceuticals' research, backed up by Yale's School of Medicine, is just a little more credible -- if no less fantastic. Cells from genetically altered pigs have helped heal spinal cord injuries in lab rats, and may do the same for humans -- offering a tiny ray of hope to millions of paralyzed people around the world...
...Hampshire license plate-_'Live Free Or Die'--that's the greatest license plate I ever saw," Costa says...