Word: platee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yanks all summer, was nursing a sore pitching finger; Whitey Ford was worried with a shoulder that throbbed whenever he thought of throwing; World Series Hero Don Larsen was in disrepair. Their heaviest hitter, Center Fielder Mickey Mantle, was hobbled with shin splints; he was limping to the plate on legs taped from ankle to thigh. No game counts more than another in the precise percentages of the record book, but by any calculation, the games with the White Sox last week were games that the Yankees had to win. Somehow, they did just that...
...Yankees, Enos Slaughter, 41. The tireless outfielder, who gets his pep from a diet of blackstrap molasses and sunflower-seed oil, waited until the eleventh inning, while Whitey Ford, his sore arm suddenly healthy, held the Sox to a 1-to-1 tie. Then, Enos stepped to the plate, took an effortless swing at the first pitch and sent the ball high and far into the right center-field stands. After Hank Bauer's third-inning homer, that was all the Yankees needed to win, 2-1, and head home with a 6½-game lead...
Base Clef. In Manhattan, Thomas Patrick Murphy, 47, booked on charges of burglary and possessing burglary tools (5,000 hotel and auto keys, auto-license-plate stamping tools), explained about the keys: "It's my hobby. I'm a key collector...
...been known to call Naples (pop. 1,000,000), and almost everyone has a story about what happened to him there. In World War II, trucks that entered Naples loaded, came out the other side of the city stripped bare. Legend has it that Neapolitans stole an entire ship, plate by plate, out of the harbor. A favorite street game is for a big boy to beat up a crying youngster within sight of a horrified American tourist. The American breaks up the fight and leaves full of virtue-minus his wallet...
Many Venoms. The company uses one of the common, hairless wasps (Polistes fuscatus), which usually nest under eaves or porches, in barns or garages; a hornet (Dolichovespula arenaria), which is distinguished from the typical yellow jacket by having an extra black plate between the eye and the lower jaw, and by building football-shaped nests well above ground; a yellow jacket (V. pennsylvanica), which nests underground or in crevices in rocks or walls; and the domestic honeybee (Apis mellifera...