Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night, Señior Mike was Harry Truman's guest at a gold-plate state dinner in the White House. He slept there, too. Next morning, the President of the U.S. saw him off on a busy round of sightseeing and wreath-laying. "I think he's having a good time," said Harry Truman. "He's a grand...
Early one morning last week, a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train was chuffing through the Juniata River Gap, west of Huntingdon, Pa. A heavy steel plate broke loose from its lashing on a flatcar, swung out wide. The P.R.R.'s crack New York-to-St. Louis American was passing on the adjoining track. The steel nicked the engine, scraped three mail and baggage cars, then slashed murderously into the side of a coach. Sleeping passengers were hurled, dazed and bleeding, into the aisle. Another plate toppled over to the opposite track into the path of an eastbound freight, derailed...
...best defensive maneuver of the day cost Harvard a possible trying run in the tenth. Jack Wallace opened the inning with a pinch-hit single to right, and with Jack Forte at the plate in an obvious sacrifice situation, Bill Gibson, Terrier catcher, called for a pitchout and picked Wallace off first with a fine throw to second-baseman Falloni...
...Part of the reason for the Communist success was furnished by Count Ernesto Perrier, leader of Sicily's badly shaken right-wing coalition. Acknowledging his side's insufficient concern with the people's urgent economic needs, he said grimly: "Our emblem should have been a plate of spaghetti with a crown...
...with the docking of the Beaver-burn and the ships that followed her, the waterfront echoes once more to longshoremen's shouts, the clatter & clank of cargo winches unloading woolens, steel, chemicals, motorcycles, automobiles, china and plate glass from across the sea. The ships take back Canadian goods. Last week one ship loaded on 1,071 cases of Canadian whiskey for Britain. "That's for us poor blokes," sighed a bosun. "They're sending the Scotch over here...