Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...garage next to their home in Cincinnati's suburb of Clifton. Some time during the night before, she had returned home from her daughter's nearby apartment. When she got out of her station wagon, she was clubbed on the head so hard that her dental plate popped out in the driveway. She was dragged by the heels into the garage. She was strangled with the cord of the red bathrobe she wore. She was raped, and her limp body was carefully arranged in a position of obscene exhibitionism...
...guerrillas struck at breakfast time, catching the American infantrymen unarmed and off guard. One U.S. sergeant was decapitated at the mess table: his head tumbled neatly into his plate of hash. Others fought back and were later found dead with bloody forks clenched in their fists. Of the 74 officers and men of C Company, 9th U.S. Infantry, only 26 survived. As one of them raged with tears in his eyes: "Damn the infernal Googoos...
...honor of Southern womanhood is represented by a couple of highborn hussies (Janice Rule and Victoria Shaw) who offer their fair white bodies to the herdsman hero (William Holden) like so much fatback on a plate. The manners of the Southern gentleman are exemplified by a courtly colonel (Richard Widmark) who, in an episode obviously intended to titillate amateur analysts, shoots off the hero's little finger...
...Martin Luther King drew applause with an appeal for white-black cooperation rather than racial rivalry. "Even we Negroes must learn," he said, "that whites and blacks in this country are tied together inseparably. Neither of us can make it alone." At one point, he gestured toward a collection plate, declared: "Green power-that's the kind of power we need...
...latin's, Monterey, Calif. Grand dishes, such as bull's head complete with apple in the mouth and eyes intact, and roast imperial Russian wild boar. Boar served only on several days' notice, at $14.75. Also $20-a-plate servings of Chateaubriand, served only to parties of ten or more...