Word: plated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first it looked as if the woman's body fished out of the muddy waters of the River Plate would have to be tagged as another unsolved crime. With hair shorn, dental plates removed, fingertips destroyed by acid, all clothes removed, the corpse offered no clue to identity...
...Look. In Depew, N.Y., U.S. Secret Service agents who seized a printing press and rounded up two men reported several new wrinkles in the counterfeiting trade: besides finding a lithograph plate designed for printing phony tickets to South Pacific, they learned that the counterfeiting ring had been offering West Coast outlets their choice of either new or old twenty-dollar bills-i.e., with or without the White House balcony...
Ohio's Democratic Representative Stephen M. Young showed up in Washington with his fourth annual black eye and his fourth reasonable explanation: "You won't believe it, but I walked right into a plate glass door at my hotel." Previous reasonable explanations: "I got shiner number one when a dentist swung his X-ray device and bumped me. Numbers two and three were the results of accidents while playing paddle tennis in the House gymnasium...
...convocation. In honor of "50 years of long and faithful service," James Hankins was presented with a plaque, a chest of silver, two purses collected by fellow employees and alumni, a gold watch and chain. For the wall outside the dining hall there was a big bronze plate with the academy seal and James's name below it. Said Head Chef Hankins, who intends to stay on at P.M.A. as long as his big capable hands are nimble : "The Lord has always blessed me to work for fine people...
Last Drag. In St. Louis, Motorist Carl Simon finished smoking his cigar, heaved it out the car window, is still looking for two front teeth that came loose from his dental plate and went sailing out with the butt...