Word: platee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usually, the shadows are ill-defined because the source of the X rays is comparatively large (e.g. as in an X-ray chest plate). As the source grows smaller, the sharpness of the shadows increases...
...plate, Willie stands, with comfortable authority, in the classic legs-astraddle pose (weight about equally divided between both legs, feet about a yard apart). His big bat (35 in., 34 oz.) is currently connecting for a hit one out of three times (a .331 clip). A "spray hitter," apt to send the ball to any field, he rarely tries to place his shots but swings for the fences. "When you tag 'em good," says Willie Mays, "they'll go over the roof in any park...
...line drive, he reached back, caught his cap in one hand and the ball in the other. Against the Dodgers one day, he raced into right center after a long fly, snagged it with a prodigious stretch, spun completely around, off balance, and rifled a perfect strike to the plate to throw out the Dodgers' speedy Billy Cox. Around big-league locker rooms, that play is still referred to as "The Throw...
...What You Gonna Do?" But Willie was something less than a whiz at the plate. Piper promised him a $5 monthly bonus for hitting more than .300, and Willie never collected. "Trouble was," says Piper, "he stood a little too close and stuck that left shoulder around in front of him like he was peekin' at the pitcher. He kept thinkin' for a while that all the pitchers were trying to hit him, but he was just crowdin...
What does matter is the anxiety it produces." One doctor's prescription for those whose inability to sleep is due to an empty stomach: "A plate of good thick porridge." Concerned because 10% of Britain's National Health Service prescriptions nowadays are for barbiturates, Professor Derrick Melville Dunlop of Edinburgh complained that "the average city dweller wants to be able to turn sleep on and off like a tap." He advocated abandoning bromides entirely because they are useless for insomnia, and urged the prescribing of barbiturates only sparingly and for short times-while the patient is being taught...