Word: platee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...single and then a brash youngster named Mickey Mantle clouted a two-run homer. Sal was magnificently unconcerned. The two last-minute victories with which he had ensured the Dodgers' pennant weighed heavily on his wrenched back. But he bent his wicked curve over the corners of the plate and he never made the same mistake twice. Slaughter calmly hit him three for five, but Sal struck out ten Yanks, stranded another nine on the bases. Behind him, the Dodgers piled up nine hits (including homers by Robinson and Hodges), got rid of starting Pitcher Whitey Ford...
...first visit to Spencer, Ind., his American mother's home town (pop. 2,394), Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan gave a ten-minute talk from the pulpit of the Methodist Church his late mother used to attend as a girl, but when the plate was passed, the man who holds Britain's purse strings had to float a modest loan to raise enough U.S. currency for a contribution...
...lover with a high taste and a low budget, the current renaissance of color lithography has proved a golden mean between expensive originals and photographed reproductions. The reason is simple. A colored lithograph, drawn by the artist on a flat stone or plate, can be cranked off by hand press, then signed and numbered to produce as many "originals" as the artist wants. The price drops accordingly, but each impression equally represents the artist's direct touch and workmanship...
...best players. There they were in front, without a single 20-game pitcher. (Whitey Ford, their best man, has a record of 18-5, has never had a 20-game season.) What they boasted was an abundance of fine fielders, men who could hold their own at the plate, men who for the most part had come up through the Yankee farm system. And there was an inexhaustible bench full of reserves...
...month ended Aug. 15, but were up 2% from August 1955. But other prices, rising on a broad front for the past month, kept going higher. Rises were announced in the prices of office typewriters (5% to 12%), in some truck andconstruction equipment (1.7% to 6%), in the tin plate used for food cans (1.25%). Nevertheless, in August, when most consumer rises went into effect, sales in U.S. department stores were 5% more than the year before...