Word: plate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Albany Street resident reported that between 1 and 1:30 p.m. a female motorist drove her car very close to him. The man said he had words with her, and when he tried to catch a glimpse of the license-plate, she tried to run him over and then fled...
...Lightyear and his floppy rival Woody. But that was child's play compared with the technological high jinks Pixar is cooking up for its upcoming Disney movies, A Bug's Life (due this fall) and a sequel to Toy Story (1999). Next on the 3-D animation studio's plate are convincingly rendered humans, the first of which appears in an imaginative short called Geri's Game. Director Jan Pinkava used powerful new software tools to create the skin and facial expressions of an old codger battling his alter ego in a to-the-death chess match. Heightening the realism...
...that changed in 1970, when The Crimson decided to switch to a "cold type" process in which a giant camera would capture each page of text on film. Production managers would shine light through the film, exposing a metal plate. The exposure, and subsequent development process, would change the surface of the plate, creating regions which either absorbed or repelled ink, and thus printed the image of the page onto newsprint...
...five siblings with wooden sticks and electric cords. At age five, he was hit in the head with a brick. At 10, one of his brothers hit him so hard on the head with a baseball bat that the bat broke. Another time, his mother smashed a dinner plate on his head. None of these injuries was ever treated. His IQ has been measured at 74, which is considered semiretarded. None of this information was presented at Carter's original trial for the robbery and murder of a gas-station clerk. The jury found him guilty in 10 minutes...
...juniors and seniors have really had to step up to the plate these last few years," said Harvard Coach Ronn Tomassoni. "When they came here we didn't have the talent base that could take the pressure off players like Ben. Unfortunately for this team to be successful, it's important that they do step into that role...