Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fritz Wiedemann, Hitler's company commander in World War I, German consul general in San Francisco for two stormy years and spy extraordinary for the Third Reich, was back in the U.S. for a brief stay last week. Newsmen who remembered Wiedemann as a tall, black-haired fashion plate scarcely recognized the baggy-suited, greying, unshaven man who deplaned from an Army transport at California's Hamilton Field...
...Hank Greenberg rubbed a lucky piece of bone on his bat, strode thoughtfully to the plate, and slammed a grand-slam homer into the left field bleachers. That did it: Hank's 13th home run (in 78 games since his Army discharge) finally clinched the American League pennant for the Detroit Tigers, on the last day of the season. The 6-to-3 win over the St. Louis Browns was No. 25 for Lefty Hal Newhouser, who had relieved fast-bailer Virgil ("Fire") Trucks, fresh out of Navy blues...
...Turtle shells are light enough for turtles to carry around, but are still fairly strong. Reason: the plate that goes across the turtle's belly holds the sides of the shell together, keeps the turtle's house from caving in under pressure. The same kind of brace under the floors of arched-roofed hangars and arenas makes bigger and safer buildings possible...
...Alexander Fleming, penicillin's discoverer, presented Pope Pius with a plate for cultivating mold to be used in re searches. In return he received this year's Pontifical Medal (picturing the Good Samaritan), and was eulogized as "a geat benefactor of mankind...
...start, the script read true to form: Newhouser's arm lasted only an inning; Greenberg, pinch-hitting, hobbled to the plate and slapped into a rally-ending double play. But other Tigers supplied crushing ad libs...