Word: platee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majority of patients whose native language is not English, he finds, form the sounds of n, l, t, d, s and z with the tip of the tongue placed near to or against the back of the upper front teeth. No matter what a dentist does in fitting new plates, he is unlikely to interfere with this process. But patients with English as their native language hold the tongue higher - against the alveolar ridge just behind the base of the upper front teeth - to make the same sounds. And that is precisely where the average dentist making an upper plate...
...short story, like a baseball pitch, either goes over the plate or misses. Most of promising young (32) Author Kentfield's stories go right over the plate. But he is more to be praised for control than change of pace, for most of his tales travel the arc of boy-into...
While a few performers struggled over a balky bit of dialogue, the rest of the cast, chorus and crew quit rehearsal for a break. Cigarettes glowed. Wax paper from sandwiches rustled on bare metal chairs. A percolator murmured on a hot plate next to a pile of coffee-stained script books. Six white mice napped in a bird cage in the temporary quiet of Cinderella's kitchen. "They've grown so fast during rehearsal," a prop man said, "that we'll have to get new ones for the show." A bruised plaster pumpkin sat in front...
Gemmaux. They are called gemmaux, a word coined from gemmes (jewels) and émaux (enamels), and consist of bits of colored glass held together by colorless enamel. A gemmiste works from a painting, transcribing it onto a horizontal plate of glass (lighted from below) by juxtaposing and superimposing pieces of glass which have an incredible variety of colors, shapes and sizes. Virtually any intensity or shade of color can be obtained by superimposing colors in proper combinations...
...seat, a pilot in trouble pulls a D-shaped ring between his feet. In a second his head, arms and legs are lashed into place and he is catapulted downward out of the plane. Once free of the cockpit, the seat projects an 8 in. by 5 in. steel plate on a 4-ft. boom in front of the pilot, shielding him from the force of the airstream much as an auto-hood deflector diverts bugs from a windshield. Lieut. Colonel John Paul Stapp. the space surgeon, says that this gimmick puts...