Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indeed, though his position papers and public pronouncements inch toward independence from the Johnson Administration, Humphrey himself vacillates, afraid that outright divorcement has perhaps even more dangers than advantages. "I do not intend to run for the office of President of the United States," he told a $500-a-plate dinner in Washington, "by turning my back on those who have stood with me." Tears filled his eyes and his voice cracked with emotion as he said that he had no intention of "repudiating the work of my party, my President and his predecessors...
...first to raise its prices was U.S. Steel Corp., which announced increases on the price of its tin-plate products. The President, summoning reporters to the White House, said he could countenance such "selective" increases. By contrast, he said, Bethlehem's across-the-board boosts of almost 5% would have "dire economic consequences." Said the President: "Inflation in steel is inflation for the nation...
Surfeit of Sophistication. "It began about 1953 in the Little Leagues," says California Angels Shortstop Jim Fregosi. "They started taking all the good athletes and making them pitchers." By the time he is twelve, today's Little Leaguer can cut the corner of the plate with a curve and he has the confidence to throw one on a three-and-two count. When he reaches the majors at an average age of 20, after progressing through the Pony League, high school, American Legion baseball, college and/or the minors, he is already a polished pro. Never before have the majors...
...began to stuff it all into a gutted TV set. With hammer and saw, glue and plaster, Scarfe concocted a many-armed "assemblage." For a final fillip, he managed to attach a serving of spaghetti- which was no mean trick, since the soft strands kept slithering off the plate under the hot photographic lights...
...obvious point that Sirhan Sirhan probably thought that he was employing violence to "put down evil." Some editors reacted as strongly as readers. As soon as he got a glimpse of the offending Tracyism, Donald Brazier, assistant managing editor of the Seattle Times, had it chipped from the printing plate. The Los Angeles Times ran a sampling of some 100 letters it had received criticizing the strip, then added that it "joins in condemning any endorsement of the spirit of violence and any extra-legal act of violence...