Word: plated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...official occasions he came out in full marshal's regalia: robin's-egg-blue trousers with yellow stripes, dark green tunic and bright red sash. Underneath the blouse, he wore a brass plate to carry the weight of his vast collection of decorations. A horrified British officer noted that Britain's cherished Order of the Bath was hanging just about where the marshal's navel would be. The only medals Zhukov seemed genuinely proud of were the three gold stars of his thrice-awarded Hero of the Soviet Union...
...league-leading Detroit Tigers. The Tigers, at least, have an easy explanation for their early success. Their pitchers are working with midsummer smoothness, and their gangling, crew-cut kid of a right fielder is knocking the sweat out of the ball almost every time he steps to the plate. Albert William Kaline, 20, only two years away from the playing fields of Baltimore's Southern High School, had just run up a 14-game hitting streak...
...with fascination that money bored him (once he used a $1,500 check as a bookmark, then lost the book), that he was absent-minded (he once walked into the salon of a transatlantic liner wearing his pajamas), that his second wife, Elsa, once ate the orchids on her plate at a formal banquet, mistaking them for the salad...
...fourth inning, with the Dodgers coasting along on a 2-0 lead, Left Fielder Sandy Amoros raced home from second on a blooping single. Monte Irvin's peg beat him to the plate. Umpire Pinelli spread his arms, palms down. Safe? Leo Durocher, the Giants' manager, boiled from the bench. Unaccountably astonished because Durocher and 27,297 fans had misunderstood him, Pinelli jerked his thumb over his shoulder and allowed that Amoros was out. Durocher simmered down. Dodger Manager Alston kicked up a brief fuss just for the record...
Neat Squeeze. Alston's big moment came later, in the last of the eighth. Now the Giants were ahead 5-4. The Dodgers had men on first and third-one out. At the plate, Jackie Robinson laid down a neat bunt to squeeze Runner Don Zimmer home. But Zimmer hesitated on the base path, playing it safe. Steaming across the infield, First Baseman Whitey Lockman scooped up the ball and whipped it home. "Yer out!" screamed Pinelli. "Yer crazy!" yowled Alston. And with half his team's help, he played some colorful variations on the same theme...