Word: plated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After John Simourian had lined a lead-off single to left to open the home ninth, clean-up hitter Bob Hastings, tied for the team lead in runs batted in, came to the plate. Hastings had previously flied to deep center in the first, and blasted a 400-foot homer over the center fielder's head in the sixth. Hastings, though, was ordered to bunt, and successfully sacrificed Simourian to third...
...kidding ourselves," said Butler. "The Democratic Party is confronted with a financial crisis." Butler was imparting the bad news to the Democratic National Committee, which met in Washington's Statler Hotel and rounded out its week with a poorly attended (2,500 guests) $100-a-plate dinner at the Washington Armory...
...heat. Philadelphia's Robin Roberts, hoping to win 20 games for the seventh straight year, pitched a typical Robertsian game, was slammed for nine hits, five for extra bases, yet beat the Dodgers 8-6. The Giants' Willie Mays performed some run-scoring aggression at home plate (see cut), personally accounted for the winning run over Pittsburgh, did the same the following day. The Cardinals' Stan Musial hit a home run to beat Cincinnati. The Yankees' Mickey Mantle walloped two out-of-the-park homers to help lick Washington (and added two more homers by week...
Observing for the first time at Agassiz Station, Bappu exposed a plate for sixty minutes in the small hours of the morning of July 2, 1949. Plates such as these are ordinarily sent back to Cambridge for processing, but Professor Bok suggested that Bappu develop it himself...
...When the plate was developed, the graduate student announced, "Now I'm going to look for comets." Bok, amused, chuckled. "Ha, ha, everyone looks for comets." But upon inspection Bappu spotted one, and Gordon A. Newkirk '50 and Bok confirmed his discovery. The comet, of only the thirteenth magnitude, is now known as the Bappu-Bok-Newkirk comet...