Word: platee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...infield looks fairly well set with Ignacio, Dick Manchester, Jeff Grate and Bill Cobb. Manchester, at second, will provide the team with one of the best gloves in the league even though he lacks power at the plate. Grate, at short-stop, is also a good fielder and has a bat to match. At third, Bill Cobb has a .308 batting average and a strong...
...flight from Amsterdam to Paris in 1965, French Astrophysicist Jacques Blamont had a sad tale to tell his traveling companion. Because of faulty equipment, every photographic plate of groups of stars exposed during a complex and expensive balloon-borne telescope experiment had been hopelessly blurred. The companion, University of Michigan Electrical Engineer George Stroke, was less discouraged. "Don't throw anything away," he urged Blamont. "Give me time and I'll get pictures out of your ruined film...
...decked out with gas-filled balloons and banners, children wandered along the aisles at will, and the sermon by the Rev. John Pairman Brown was entitled "God Is Doing His Thing." When the congregation was invited to "donate something which has meaning to you," the collection plate yielded little money but plenty of beads, marbles, a draft card and even a package of morning-glory seeds. Later, Father York distributed communion to his turned-on friends...
...fire began in a pan of wax which someone was melting over a hot plate, Mrs. Jo J. Heunemann, dorm resident, said yesterday. The burner was left on overnight, and the wax burst into flame, she added. A wall beside the hot plate was charred, but the fire activated the sprinkler system before any further damage was done...
...Like most other Americans, I have become steeled to the "television war" watched on the early news across the dinner table. Television coverage of the attacks on the U.S. embassy, therefore, caused only a momentary pause in the trajectory of my peas from plate to mouth...