Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There he ran across a couple of old friends. He told them his mother was "resting easy," and ordered the roast beef blue-plate special (70?). The other customers-a couple of farmers, some railroad men in blue jeans-paid little attention. Two people went on playing the juke...
...Foreign Ministers' Deputies, laboring in London over German and Austrian peace treaty drafts, last week had more brackets than boiler plate on their hands. "Boiler plate" (a U.S. newspaper term for ready-cast features) was how the U.S. staff referred to non-controversial provisions which the deputies simply lifted from the finished satellite treaties. "It's still in brackets" was the phrase used whenever the deputies indicated their disagreement by penciling brackets around a disputed passage...
...with three vanloads of baggage, a refrigerator freight car full of choice game. Five Vickers Viking planes equipped with the latest safety gadgets, four dozen or so sleek, new Daimler, Austin and Humber motorcars, a 14-coach, ivory-and-gold train, complete with telephones, offices, kitchens, salons and armor-plate windows had been shipped ahead. The Vanguard herself was tricked out with curtains, carpets, elaborate apartments for the royal travelers, and a special platform on which they could be seen at naval reviews...
...know: that a belt of crustal uneasiness surrounds the entire Pacific Ocean. The Pacific's shores are nearly all high and rugged, decorated with volcanoes or with young (a mere 100,000,000 years or so), still growing mountain ranges which shake periodically like custard on a plate. Atlantic shores, much calmer, are mostly old and stable...
...years, Bob Young had become the most-talked-about railroadman in the U.S. Consequently, people took stock-quite literally-in what he intended to do. He had already put together a railroad kingdom out of the roads which Alleghany Corp. controlled: the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Nickel Plate, the Pere Marquette and its stock interests (in ten other roads). Now he was after an empire. The New York Central would be its keystone...