Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this week's Sport section, Pitcher Warren Spahn, a man of superb control, tries to describe how he throws to the outer edge of the plate, and says, "I couldn't throw one down the pipe if I tried.'' The enlivening speech of natural conversationalists, the alphabetical shorthand of bureaucrats, the foreign words that sometimes say it better, the new names and phrases that describe the latest art fad or music craze, all find their way into our pages. A sampler from this week's issue...
Actually, as pitchers' repertories go, Spahn's is fairly extensive. He has four basic pitches: a fast ball that sails upward as it nears the plate; a curve that breaks to his right; a screwball that breaks left; and a slider-a modified fast ball that veers slightly inside to a right-handed batter. Every pitch starts with precisely the same motion: a long, slow rock-back, a high fluid kick, and a flurry of arms and legs that "makes the ball look as though it is coming right out of my uniform." And then there...
Every auto license plate in Illinois is green and yellow this year-an unusual public tribute to a private company. The colors are the state's way of honoring the 125th anniversary of Moline's Deere & Co., whose distinctive green and yellow colors have for years identified its tractors, farm machinery and, lately, its light industrial equipment. After all, almost every inch of Illinois was plowed, furrowed, dug or smoothed at one time or another by some piece of Deere machinery. Since Blacksmith John Deere perfected the first steel plow in 1837-the plow that broke the plains...
...outer facade peeks a structure drawn with a Mondrian ruler in a rectilinear austerity of charcoal grey, white and glass. Suspended over the stairs and lobbies are globes of light, a child's army of upside-down lollipops. The stage itself juts forward like a mammoth home plate with a blunted tip, while a rear portico of four columns supports an upper platform. Around this arena stage sweeps a C-arc of 200°. some tiers of the 1,437 seats rising as steeply as bleachers, others sloping more conventionally, none more than 52 ft. from the playing stage...
...that inning, the Crimson left the bases loaded. The team did the same in the second inning. In the third inning, singles by Gilmor, Patrick, and Diehl brought Gilmor across the plate for the second run of the day, but the varsity was retired with two men still on base...