Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned out that the ringleader had got the idea for the escape when his job required him to use the dozer to level the forbidden strip opposite Spandau. He and a neighbor in the nearby hamlet of Falkensee lined the cab with steel plate against the bullets of border guards, and it was a sound idea, since the bulldozer was hit by at least 30 bullets. As an additional defense, both men had carried bags of pepper "to throw in their eyes in case they stopped us." Far more fortifying were other advance preparations, which may have explained some...
Speaking at a $125-a-plate dinner in San Francisco, his bulk pared from 193 Ibs. to a near-svelte 185 Ibs., California's two-term Democratic Governor Pat Brown vehemently accused Ronald Reagan's supporters of plotting a "revolution of the right." Appearing in a 30-minute statewide telecast, well tanned and decked out in a red-white-and-blue necktie, Republican Challenger Reagan charged that Brown had been "taken over by militant left-wing radicals." Thus, though the argy-bargy already sounded as familiar to most voters as a come-on-over radio commercial, the rivals...
Still, even without the investment credit, a massive amount of capital spending will be undertaken. Some of it is based on expanding markets. Phelps Dodge reported that it was going ahead with a $100 million copper mine development program in New Mexico because "our customers are waiting." Pittsburgh Plate Glass has a $125 million program under way to build new chemical facilities because there is a solid, steady demand for such output; a $37 million chlorine and caustic-soda plant at Lake Charles, La., was announced last week in the midst of the furor over the Johnson tax program. Anheuser...
...chicken every workday. In the dugout before each game, he grabs the bat rack and gives it a shake-which puts the whammy on enemy batters. Before every inning, he runs out to the mound at full speed. Before a key pitch, he studiously turns his back to the plate and taps his right armpit...
...Kansas City's College Heights Methodist Church urged his congregation to hire a Negro organist, his car was burned and he found a hangman's noose on his mail box. More frequently, though, opposition takes a financial form. Outspoken preachers on civil rights have seen their collection-plate income drop as much as 50% after a sermon on integration; last month All Souls Church in Washington, D.C., drastically cut its annual contribution to the city's Episcopal Diocese as a protest against Suffragan Bishop Paul Moore Jr.'s advocacy of .open housing and fair employment practices...