Word: plated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says Campy. "When you're hitting, you hit." Sturdy Catcher Campanella (5 ft. 8 in., 195 Ibs.) should know: he has had other dazzling early-season hitting streaks which faded into just plain competence by midseason. But he acknowledges that he is standing "a little closer to the plate" than he did last year, when his season's batting average was only .269. "That gives me a little more wood on the ball." Whatever the explanation, Campanella's hitting is a profound source of pleasure to Brooklyn Manager Charley Dressen. who has been shuffling his players frantically...
...second-hat role as chief of the Republican Party, Dwight Eisenhower last week undertook his first political expedition since the November election. Occasion: the New York Republican state committee's $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner in Manhattan. With the President of the U.S. as the star attraction, the committee got more $100 customers (3,900) than any hotel ballroom could hold, so it hired two hotel ballrooms, one at the Astor and one at the Waldorf-Astoria. Ike agreed to give his speech twice-"pitch a doubleheader...
...speeches at $100-a-plate political dinners go, the President's speech was notably unpolitical. Speaking from sparse notes printed on cards, he delivered not a tub-thumping pep talk but an earnest "account of what has been going on in Washington." The Administration's "great objective," he said, is to create "a government whose honor at home commands respect abroad." Other notes...
...they sat down together for their first meeting, Naguib was startled to see Dulles pull a holstered, .32-calibre Colt automatic from his pocket and place it on the mahogany table. The Secretary laughed and handed the pistol to Naguib, still slightly bewildered. Then he read from a silver plate on the handle: "To General Mohammed Naguib, from his friend, Dwight D. Eisenhower." It was one of the President's personal pistols. "This is to preserve peace with, not fight a war," said Dulles. Naguib smiled and said: "I know...
...infield had Russ Johnson at first, Wak Greeley at second, Ed Krinsky at short, and Tim Wise at third, with Dick Clasby going all the way behind the plate...