Word: platee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...segregationists charged at reporters, flinging stones and brandishing clubs to block coverage of their rallies. When the Knoxville Journal's Bill Anderson tried to get into a mass meeting unobtrusively, six men beat him up; he had been given away by the prefix number on his automobile license plate, marking him as an '"outsider" from adjoining Knox County...
...doctor, Gabrielle had fervently hoped to be sent to the Belgian Congo as a missionary nurse. She was assigned instead to an insane asylum where 100 overworked nuns cared for 1,000 female patients. There she tended a countess who thought she was a dog and ate from a plate in the center of the floor, a onetime abbess whose chief quirk was to wear a brown-paper bag on her head night and day, and a dementia praecox case who thought she was the Archangel Gabriel and nearly succeeded in strangling Gabrielle to death...
...Newk took on the Phillies, and his teammates got him what he wanted. They got four runs in the first inning, fielded flawlessly as the pitcher worked away with a lazy grace. His big curve snapped wickedly off the corners of the plate, his fast ball boomed into the catcher's mitt, and his sneaky change-up gave the batters fits. For six innings he had a no-hitter. Then Philadelphia First Baseman Marv Blaylock blooped a single. Catcher Stan Lopata backed it up with a home run. But the Dodgers ran it out, 5-2, and Big Newk...
...attractive, the new 5?, 32-page Middletown Daily Record looked different-and it is. The paper is the first sizable venture in daily publishing by a "cold type" photo-offset process instead of conventional letterpress printing. The process uses no hot metal, no Linotype machines, no matrixes or engraved plates. Copy is typed on special typewriters that print "justified" lines, i.e., they fill out each line flush to the right-hand margin. Then it is pasted on a sheet, photographed and printed on an aluminum plate, much as a photographic negative is printed. Mounted on a press, the plate transfers...
Flattop's Boy. In Trenton, Tenn., after an eight-hour police inspection, Minneapolis Tourist John Sward was allowed to proceed south in his 1942 Oldsmobile equipped with hot plate, fully stocked icebox, cooking utensils, groceries, bed, solar-heated water tank, showerbath, and, lashed to the roof, a bicycle for use in case of breakdowns...