Word: platee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...match the enemy's massive Army, for an all-out struggle would soon bring tactical nuclear air-power into play, ultimately the Strategic Air Command and carrier strike forces. But gone also is the day when airpower theorists can write off the Army as mere "trip wire" or "plate glass" to sound the general alarm for all-out nuclear...
...craft devices, the most wasteful is that of setting "bogus," or "dead horse," which the International Typographical Union has been getting into contracts since 1871. In its broadest application, bogus compels a newspaper to employ workers to reset the advertisements that have been received and used in mat or plate form. The reset ad is worthless, often consigned at once to the composing-room hellbox for remelting. On the Washington Post and Times Herald, I.T.U. men last week were resetting ads that actually ran in 1957. The New York Times estimated that it dead-horsed 5,750,000 lines...
Commodore Bartle Bull, the CRIMSON mentor, rallied his forces for the supreme effort. Three times the entire batting order strode to the plate and, sparked by back-to-back grand slammers by "Cherokee" Chadwick and Boise Bryce Nelson, battered the stunned disk-jockeys...
...balls, to break a scoreless tie in the fourth inning. Al Martin drew the walk as leadoff batter and was sacrificed to second by John Davis. Chet Boulris laced a single to center, advancing Martin to third. Boulris then stole second and a moment later followed Martin across the plate when Charlie Ravenel grounded...
...thanks to the Marshall Plan and other U.S. aid programs, plus the spending of private business, plants just as efficient as those in the U.S. are turning out goods around the world. Britain's $490 million Abbey steelworks in South Wales is a fully integrated ore-to-plate plant on a par with the U.S.'s newest. As a result, the U.S. is not only losing out in its old markets, but is failing to get its share of the new markets that industrial development is creating in backward nations...