Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Toward Home Plate. On my initial flight on the target area, I secured photographs of both targets. Airplanes with mechanics at work were directly below. After about ten seconds of controlled flight with four of six of the cameras in the airplane working, we turned "down and around'' and came in for another target run from a different direction...
Only a small number of scholars have eaten in the Radcliffe dorms, and some felt extremely uncomfortable when they did come. One said, "I come there, take my plate and wonder what I'm there for." Convinced that this problem could be easily solved, Miss Smith remarked, "Most of the scholars are not basically shy, but they find it difficult to walk into a dining room where they know no one. If a student personally invited a scholar, the woman would be delighted...
What touched of-the uproar was an incident in a University of Amsterdam student club, inappropriately called "Nos Inngit Amicitia" (Friendship Ties Us Together). When a freshman complained because a plate of hot soup was poured over him, he was told to keep quiet or face "the Dachau treatment," in which upperclassmen shout, "Jews stand up!" (or "Negroes stand up!" or "Are there any Chinese here?"), then taunt the victims. "I lost my parents there during the war," protested the freshman, but he was ordered to go through with the game. An indignant parent wrote a letter to a Rotterdam...
After the speech, Noel Day, a social worker, led the crowd in singing "We Shall overcome," and Hughes, leaning against the battered blue sound truck behind home plate, shyly joined in. He then moved around the infield shaking hands, and told one woman that "the day after election day I'm going to start in on my work. I have a stack of Ph.d. theses that high to read," he said with a gesture of his hand...
...over his .120 batting average. "I'm gonna go see a doctor," confided San Francisco's weary Willie Mays, who drove in 121 runs during the regular season, only one during the World Series. Yankee Slugger Roger Maris managed just five hits in 23 trips to the plate; the Giants' Baby Bull Orlando Cepeda was 0 for 12 at one point, wound up with a minuscule .158 average. The whole Yankee team batted .199, the Giants hit .226, and both clubs together collected only 95 base hits-a record low for a seven-game series. Strikeouts...