Word: platee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patrice Munsel: When she first appeared on TV six years ago, agile Coloratura Munsel, 32, took one look at herself in the monitor and decided: "I televise like a plate of worms." Last week Patrice came back with her own show looking more like a dish for the gods. The Metropolitan Opera's pinup girl has always cut a lissome figure, and her voice fills with rills and lusty high Fs; away from the mustiness of the Met, on TV she is freer to indulge her self-confessed "innate ham" with quick changes and buoyant tunes. The first...
...eight years, ever since Lamont Library opened its plate-glass doors back in 1949, a chaste little exhibition of printing techniques has reposed in the showcases of the First Level. There, an offensively well-proportioned "Specimen of Fairfield Type" has untiringly announced its vital message to the daily passers-by: "Consult the Eyes as Sovereign Judges of Form...
...fourth-quarter decline in the rate (currently $37 billion annually) of expenditures for new plant and equipment, the first drop since the first quarter of 1955. The growing surplus of oil (see below) and the possibility of lower steel production and prices as Lukens Steel dropped the price of plate $8 a ton also had an unsettling effect...
...What do your tea leaves tell you?" my friend with the dragon inquired. He had pretended not to notice how fast I cleaned my plate. There wasn't any sugar...
...understand," I replied, switching off my hot plate. "Actually, I'm leaving...