Word: plate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commentators, who had been expecting Albert and his bosses would be able to work out some kind of deal, and that the commentator's throaty affirmatives would be heard once more. Now it seems someone else from NBC's packed stable will be asked to step up to the plate: perhaps the squeaky-clean Bob Costas, who has kept a lower profile of late...
...found myself alone at home. The mothers were gone for the weekend, the cousins all shipped to work for the day. "What will I do with this blissfully quintessential Sunday afternoon?" I asked myself. Exercise at my leisure, take a shower, read the newspaper over a steaming plate of eggs? Perhaps visit a friend who I had been meaning to see, but somehow returning as quickly as politeness would allow to my temporary Isle of Solitude...
...cherished goal of bringing Karadzic to the court of justice in the Hague. Backing Plavsic is a gamble, but in the quagmire of Republika Srpska, admits a State Department official, "there don't seem to be alternatives. She's the only one who's stepped up to the plate...
...citizenry at large grows even larger, Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich have both slimmed down. A few months ago, apparently, Clinton began to leave a little something on his plate, not to speak of the plates of the people he was dining with. No longer was it easy to imagine that the arrival of the President of the U.S. at a conference of the leading industrialized nations would cause John Major to whisper to Jean Chretien, "Try not to get seated next to him at lunch if you value your French fries...
...opening day of the baseball season, for instance, I often wonder if he's tempted to put in some secret bullpen practice with a catcher whose discretion he could count on--Web Hubbell, maybe--just to reduce the chances that his first attempt to put one over the plate could panic the customers in the box seats behind third base. I wouldn't blame...