Word: plated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liner, the metal comes under immense pressure and acts like a thin fluid. Like a jet-propelled stream of toothpaste, the fluid metal spurts forward, at speeds up to 30,000 feet a second. The jet of liquid metal and gas can pierce more than eleven inches of armor plate. Shaped-charge shells are also equipped with rocket-like fins to give a steady flight without the spin of the standard artillery projectile...
This season the mastodonic Easter, who makes a bat look like a baton, has made American League pitchers dread his appearance at the plate. When asked what is the most difficult thing for him to do in baseball, Easter says simply: "Strike...
...Miller. Also a big fellow (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.), stoop-shouldered Miller has a quality that is rare in young pitchers: control. This week he lost his first game, after winning eight, has one of the lowest earned-run averages in the league.* Whenever Miller misses the plate twice in a row, says Phillies Manager Eddie Sawyer, he asks for a new ball. "He figures it must be the ball's fault." Miller has made the jump from Class B ball (Terre Haute, Ind.) to the majors in one poised stride, has become a big factor...
From their seats in the upper grandstand of Manhattan's vast Polo Grounds, they faced home plate and, above it, rising over the top of the oval grandstand, a row of dingy apartment houses on Coogan's Bluff. In one of these houses, a young Negro, with a .45 pistol he had found in Central Park, was preparing for a celebration all by himself; he had saved his only bullet for July...
...Victor Deckx, he had listened politely enough when a white-robed monk came to the church recently to preach a mission against the ungodly superstitions present in Witgoor; but when it came time to pass the plate, Victor had pointedly ignored Martha Minnen's outstretched offering. Soon afterward Martha's children came home from school complaining that no one would play with a witch's kids. That was when Martha decided...