Word: platee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the plate, a hot contest is in progress between Bing Crosby, Phil Haughey, and John Davis. The sophomore Davis has been hitting quite well, but the position is still uncertain...
...early days nickel was almost entirely a war baby, whose greatest value was for armor-piercing shells and armor plate. Inco gyrated between boom and bust, went from a $10 million profit in 1917 to an $800,000 deficit in 1921 when defense needs slacked off, and the company actually had to shut down for twelve months, Stanley and Thompson worked years to find peacetime uses for the fabulous nickel lode, helped develop heavy-duty nickel steels for dozens of products, taught businessmen new ways to use nickel in household equipment, autos, steel and other products...
...avoids ties in favor of turtleneck sweaters or open-throat shirts. His shoes are often unshined, his pants unpressed, his nails dirty, his light beard unshaven. He prefers his country red wine to champagne, the kitchen to the living room, and he drinks his soup from his plate. He boasts that he has no book learning. "Why should I study books? I know more already than the people who wrote them." He tells crowds: "I'm just le petit Poujade, an ordinary Frenchman like...
Personalizing Peter's Pence. In the lead story, Dawn, Father Udovic finds a packet of trouble in the collection plate. It is an envelope addressed to "The Pope," marked "Personal," gathered up in Father Udovic's campaign "to personalize Peter's Pence" by having the bishop, who is going to Rome, "present the proceeds to the Holy Father personally." For days the innocuous-looking envelope ticks like a time bomb in the bishop's "In" box. Father Udovic finally sends for the letter writer, a laconic little woman who grudgingly reveals that the envelope contains...
...only damage suffered by the University was the breaking of a quarter-inch thick plate of glass in the front door of the Widener Library. The full-size pane broke at about 9:15 p.m., as the wind blew the swinging door shut after a reader entered the building. No one was injured...