Word: platee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is nothing worse in life than losing. So they have bounced back from a staggering last-place start. They have made do without the services of Slugger Ted Kluszewski, whose injured back has turned him into a defensive drawback around first base and a spottv performer at the plate. Slowly and steadily they have clawed their way out ox recurrent slumps, and scrambled back toward the lead where they are sure they belong...
...ballplayer-I don't give a damn how great he is. That's why I try never to lose confidence in the best or the least of my players. The rest of it, a ballplayer has to do for himself. He takes the bat up to the plate. He fields the ball. He throws the ball. If you want to be a good manager, get good ballplayers...
...while my hair was still dripping wet" and put in solitary confinement as a spy. Two years later she was moved to the women's dormitory at Fo Utca, where "39 women slept in 14 bunks, breathed air that came through a tiny window blocked by an iron plate. The stench was terrible. For 14 months not a drop of hot water to wash with. In winter the water was so cold that it froze solid. Once, we sacrificed six precious bowls of hot soup to wash our hair...
...Defense Secretary Wilson, after putting up his sturdiest fight yet for his defense budget, pointedly advised $100-a-plate guests at a Republican fund-raising dinner in Milwaukee to look over their shoulders and see if the voters were still there with them. "As a tip in this regard," he said, "I would like to remind you of the great popular vote that President Eisenhower received...
Cool autumn winds off the River Plate stirred fitfully through Buenos Aires this week, fluttering bright political posters on the walls, wafting a rich aroma from the stand-up coffee bars, riffling the leaves of the acacia trees. Steamers hooted in the harbor, cattle bawled in the stockyards, streetcars clanged and creaked. In the restaurants, solid citizens, their appetites renewed by the crisp air, tucked napkins into collars and turned with sober and fastidious attention to platter-size steaks and tall bottles of red wine. At night, in the tango palaces, unsmiling couples danced as black-suited singers mourned...