Word: plated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chauncey McCormick. Sighed Mrs. McCormick: "I'm completely overcome." Certainly the new queen was eminently qualified for her job. Marion McCormick, a grandmother in her 60s, is a third-generation Chicagoan, and one of the richest women in the U.S. She gives impeccable dinners, served on gold plate and fine Lowestoft china. She is a cousin by marriage of Bertie McCormick. She owns fabulous emeralds, pearls and old masters, presides over a luxurious Lake View Avenue apartment, a Wheaton suburban estate, a mansion at Seal Harbor, Me. and another in Miami. She is a generous benefactor of the Chicago...
...National League shortstops in fielding; nine .years later, at 39, he was still nimble enough to lead all second basemen. Finally, after 23 years as a major leaguer (with five clubs), the Rabbit, still playing baseball to the hilt, broke his leg sliding into home plate in a spring exhibition game and ended his active career...
...twilight consisted mostly of sticky globs of rice and a few slivers of salmon and beef. In between, they sampled everything from roots and berries to mules and monkeys. Wrote one G.I.: "That monkey meat is all right until the animal's hands turn up on a plate." Beset by dysentery, dengue fever and malaria, badgered by enemy planes and artillery, blocked off from all aid, the men nursed their back-to-the-wall morale in bitter little ditties...
Solid Evidence. In Helsinki, Finland, after Burglar Olavi Veikko Horppu complained that his stomach hurt, police doctors operated, found: broken bits of a dinner plate, two salad forks, a table knife, several razor blades and a handful of nails...
...will add to their war potential . . . They would be knuckleheads to start a war now, but in the late '50s, who can tell?" This vast upheaval over one-sixth the earth's surface might also be measured by the small easements-a pair of shoes, a full plate of food-that it may bring to that most forgotten of forgotten men, the Russian serf. The tragedy is that these benefits will add little to his joy, and nothing to his freedom, but will work only-for this is the intent-to fasten tighter the control of his masters...