Word: platee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Artifacts of Achievement. For six triphammer days, while Premier Nikolai Bulganin traveled in genial, flower-showered near-silence at his side, the chief of Russian Bolshevism carried the brick-loaded Red hod through Burma. He heaved some bricks at the West, crashed others through the plate-glass facts of history. Some he carefully mortared into the structure of Communism's new policy in Asia. All in all, he must have accounted it a good week's work. The Burmans had not displayed the tumultuous enthusiasm of the Indians, but when the pair left Rangoon to return to India...
...still looked awkward, his huge hands dug grounders out of the dirt with flawless ease. Those long arms could whip a ball across the infield too fast for the fastest runner. His lifetime fielding average was .946. At the plate Honus was a serious, spread-legged terror. For 17 consecutive seasons he hit better than .300 for a lifetime average of .329. In each of eight separate seasons he stole more than 40 bases. Before he quit as an active player in 1917, he had set a National League record of 3,430 hits, played in a record...
...pumper's cab, made of heavy armor plate, can seat nine people. Kilfoyle said that "we're willing to fill her up with college kids, if we can help them by getting them home for Christmas." He emphasized that there would be no discrimination on account of sex in choosing the riders...
...Democratic National Committee's $100-a-plate dinner in Chicago (TIME, Nov. 28), Stevenson had borrowed a word from the Eisenhower Administration's lexicon to say that "moderation is the spirit of the times." Within 18 hours after Candidate Stevenson uttered the word, New York's Governor Averell Harriman, one of the faster-moving inactive candidates, called a press conference in Chicago, hammered the desk and took aim squarely at Adlai Stevenson. Said Harriman: "The word 'moderation' is not in the Democratic dictionary. It seems to me you fall into the Republican vernacular when...
Water flowing away from the burning Union turned to ice on Massachusetts Avenue yesterday. As a result, a Square-bound M.T.A. bus skidded 30 feet, plowed into four cars, and crashed through the plate glass window of a packed University Restaurant and Luncheonette. Miraculously, no one was more than slightly injured...