Word: platee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boston Democrats never had a more successful fund-raising dinner than last week's testimonial for John E. Powers, candidate for mayor. The faithful turned out 2,190 strong for filet mignon at $100 a plate, and by evening's end, Powers' nomination was put down as a political certainty. Nobody minded much that the state's top Democrat, Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy, was off on Senate business, for he was represented in the two seats of honor by brother Ted and by Powers himself, a leading Kennedy lieutenant. Perhaps it was better, thought some, that...
...make his entry? What tool will do the job? What part of the mechanism should be jimmied with what tool? Then comes careful experimentation until at last he discovers the machine's weak spot: the locked door, or a tiny opening for a wire, or a vulnerable glass plate. After patient hours of practice, the thief collects his tools and goes to work, preferably in a big club where from 40 to 400 slot-machine players are trying their luck at the same time...
Numisguided. In Hermosa Beach, Calif., someone smashed a plate-glass window, stole 1?-a 1909 Lincoln penny worth...
...huddle breathlessly in the loft, the suspicious Germans stretch out their investigation for long, agonizing minutes. As they prowl, Stevens' camera flashes to a shot of the family cat, perched on the drainboard. its nose prodding a small funnel toward the edge, its rear leg scuffing against a plate. The fugitives-and the audience-can do nothing but watch the animal in paralyzed silence...
...seats in the soaring, powder blue La Ronde Room at Miami Beach's Fontainbleau (pronounced: fountain-blew) Hotel were filled with men in silk suits and women in mutation mink. Steak dinners were snapped up at $10 a plate; drink-hustling waiters peddled hooch by the bottle ("Ya might as well. Yer payin' for it"). Then the M.C. silenced the house with a simple announcement: "Direct from the bar of the Boom Boom Room [another Fontainbleau saloon] we bring you the vocalist, Frank Sinatra...