Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike was orderly and well-mannered. The greatest hardship wrought was that on screen star Mary Martin. Stopping at the Savoy with her husband, pert Mary had to cook their dinner (canned chicken and coffee) on an electric plate. Said she: "We only blew out one tiny little fuse...
Besides doing the carpentry, the wiring, the painting, the plumbing, and the heating work on the units, the Federal Public Housing Authority throws in with each home a jade-green plastic shower curtain, an ice-box, a porcellain towel rack, an aluminum mailbox, and a two-plate electric stove complete with oven. Everything else is up to the individual, but the University has a limited amount of furniture available for rental...
...This is like town lot baseball; they've even lost the ball in the weeds.' And then I annoyed 'em when I told again what lousy baseball they were playing. I think I said 'We've had everything but a wedding at home plate.' I don't think they liked that...
...mistakes. The police tagged him as a delinquent. Then he stole a $30 rifle, was sent off to the Colorado Industrial School for Boys at nearby Golden. There Anthony, now 14, got in trouble again: he broke the silence rule going in to supper, offered another boy his plate because he wasn't hungry himself...
...second, a ribbed shadow of bright-and-dark "diffraction bands." By measuring these, the star's disc can be measured. But the bands are 30 feet apart, and they race past a telescope's lens at more than 1,000 miles per hour. No photographic plate or observer's eye is big enough or fast enough to catch them...