Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While police were pushing the crowd against the hotel front, another body of police in a side street, alerted by a radio call of "policeman in trouble," charged into the flank of the already jam-packed crowd, ultimately forcing a score of people through a plate-glass window...
...name suggests, the nine-banded armadillo is encased in nine bands of armorlike plate. When alarmed, it curls into a nearly impenetrable ball or jumps straight up into the air. It spends much of its time burrowing holes in the earth; after swallowing air to increase its buoyancy, it is at home in the water too. But the strange beast has an even more remarkable characteristic: it normally gives birth only to quadruplets...
...liquid or powdered form, whether poured over a plate of chow or curdled in a custard, soybeans have provided the Chinese with their main source of protein for 3,000 years. Some people in the Far East even call the soybean "the cow of China." Fittingly, a Chinese businessman in Hong Kong, K. S. Lo, has hit on the idea of milking a drink out of the bean and building a prosperous business around it. The product, called Vitasoy, has become the new soft-drink craze in the British crown colony...
...otherwise dull life of many a resident of the City. Middle-aged men and women gathered around a small drugstore near the eastern end of Cambridge St. to vie for walk-on parts in the film, strolled past Simeone's for a glimpse of Tony Curtis slurping a plate of spaghetti, and gossiped endlessly about the trial of a self-confessed strangler--Albert DeSalvo--in an East Cambridge courtroom. But now that the completed film blares out on the screen, it's hard to feel other than slightly nauseated--or even ribaldly amused--by its pastiche of lurid suggestions...
Manhattan's latest watering hole is hidden away in the basement of the Sherry-Netherland Hotel behind a heavy wooden door with only a discreet brass name plate to identify it. Designer Cecil Beaton has maintained the speakeasy image by decking the joint out with dark red and green wallpaper and gleaming brass fixtures, plus just a hint of modern psychedelia in the lights flashing across the dining-room ceiling. But not everybody can get into Raffles merely by rapping on the door and whispering, "Joe sent me." It costs $500 to join, another $350 a year in dues...