Word: platee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meal was cooked right on the table, on a small, single-burner hot plate made of stainless steel. The girl deposited a frying pan on the burner, dumped in several pounds of chicken fat, covered the chicken fat with a mixture of chopped herbs, and proceeded to pour on a thick, sordid potion...
...frying pans contents were now unloaded onto my plate. There being no salt or pepper, I commenced to eat. After struggling with amazing incapacity for ten minutes with my pair of wooden chop sticks, I capitulated to a fork. The Chicken blubber tasted just like chicken blubber, and the herbs like marinated spinach. I asked my friend about the shredded celophane...
...discreetly dumped the remainder of my plate into the frying pan, and gazed raptly at the chipped white...
...house was not in Yankee Stadium or in Milwaukee's County Stadium, but in front of any TV set in the land. NBC whisked the home spectator all over the field almost as intimately as the ball itself, perched him right behind the umpire at home plate, let him look over the pitcher's shoulder, or into the dust cloud at third. It was a job that took teamwork as smooth as any on the ballfield. Alertly swung and aimed cameras sent a confusing pell-mell of images from all angles into a control room where split-second...
...left, followed with another single by Johnny Logan. Both Logan and Hazle then scored on a double by Eddie Mathews. Mathews was followed by Hank Aaron, who reached first on a hit to center; the two Braves, Aaron and Mathews, strengthened the Braves' margin when they crossed the plate on a Texas League single by Wes Covington...