Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After that, it was Bilbo's turn. Before the hearing, a Mississippi doctor had told committee investigators that the Senator has cancer of the mouth. Wasted, and minus his lower plate. Bilbo sat in the wit ness chair from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. While his voice clogged and his shoulders sagged, he spat at his inquisitors like a treed cougar...
Ambassador Lane receives state callers in his living room while his wife ducks discreetly into the kitchen-bedroom, where she also cooks the meals on a hot plate. Meanwhile some Embassy personnel work in Quonset-like huts in Warsaw's bomb-scarred lots...
Nehru moved about at receptions with high good humor and grace. At India House, he shook hands with the Dowager Marchioness of Willingdon, whose husband had jailed him; at Buckingham Palace, he ate from His Majesty's gold plate, a delightful change from the tin service he had known as a nine-year guest in H. M.'s prisons. Jinnah was socially crusty, giving the impression of a man deeply aggrieved. When the travelers got down to cases, however, it was the smiling Nehru who proved most stubborn...
Mexico, especially the ancient capital, was abrim with activity, but not with economic health. The winter sun shone brightly on streets jammed with new automobiles, on the white stone and plate glass of tall buildings; it gave life and movement to the lavishly plumed hats of the well-dressed wives of the prosperous on their way to tea at Sanborn's. But the scene was deceptive. The new President knew it, would have to face...
...house these photographs, which now comprise a 500,000-plate history of the heavens for the last half-century, the fire-proof Astrophysical building was established in Cambridge in 1931. This pictorial library, largest of its kind in the world, has proved an invaluable aid in plotting the future courses of celestial bodies...