Word: platee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jive. I heard of one of these cats who went to church and said to the minister: 'Dad, you really blasted me this morning-you were real cool, Dad-cool, I mean cool, Dad. That jive of yours so beat me that I dropped $20 in the plate!' And the minister replied, 'Crazy, man, crazy...
Adlai E. Stevenson told a Boston Democratic fund-raising dinner ($25 a plate) that the President "speaks for all of us" in refusing to be forced out of Berlin. But calling upon his party "to make good the perilous deficiencies of the executive branch," Stevenson suggested that the West can afford to negotiate toward disengagement in Central Europe. "We must face the fact that no Russian withdrawal can be secured without a modification of the Western position," he said. "In order to take, we will have to give...
...Auto output increased to 115,770 cars, up 1,488 from the week before, and 14% ahead of last year. Chrysler, which was hard hit by the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. strike, expects to step up production with glass from other sources. If the strike is settled this week, as expected, Chrysler plans to go back into full production almost immediately...
Lynch inched forward to the cockpit from the lounge, helped the copilot and flight engineer override the automatic pilot and pull the plane out at 6,000 ft. After an emergency landing at Gander, the plane showed no damage from the dive beyond a cracked wing-splice plate; investigators guessed that sudden de-icing of the 707's trimmed elevators had sent the jet's nose down. Favorite statistic of survivors: just before the 29,000-ft. descent, Captain Lynch had climbed from 28,000 ft. to 35,000 ft. to get over a storm...
Albers' inkless intaglios were made by pressing wet, heavy paper onto an engraved plate. They result from hundreds of ink and pencil drawings on graph paper made over the past decade. Why does he print without ink? "I am trying to reduce my means-it is a demonstration of my economic inclination," he explains with a sly twinkle behind his glasses. Albers has an equally simple explanation for the ambiguity of his new pictures and their shifting forms: "My purpose is to show that within the same skeleton different actions may appear. In Duo B the left and right...