Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week. As one, 30,000 fans leaped to their feet and screamed wildly as the ball disappeared into the right-field bleachers and the batter loped casually around the bases. One of the loudest cheers came from Stan Musial, vice president of the opposing St. Louis Cardinals. Not even Plate Umpire Chris Pelekoudas could stand aloof as the player rounded third and touched home; Pelekoudas reached out and warmly shook his hand. Willie Mays had just hit the 535th homer of his wonderful career to go ahead of Jimmy Foxx as the greatest righthanded home-run hitter in baseball history...
...site was quite possibly the site of Camelot-a somewhat less opulent Camelot, of course, than Julie Andrews and Richard Burton inhabited. Toward that end, Arthurians are now raising more cash for a full-scale dig next summer. What they really need to prove their case, is a tablet, plate or shield inscribed with Artorius, Dux Bellorum...
...full space walk (at lower altitudes) during which Pilot Gordon will manipulate a battery-operated wrench to fasten and unfasten several bolts on a plate outside the spacecraft...
...film, he shot spectrograms of several stars. Because ultraviolet is largely absorbed by the earth's atmosphere, the spectrograms could give astronomers a good look at the stars' composition and behavior and provide added information about their origin. As Gemini-Agena passed into daylight, Collins mounted a plate marked with colored patches of red, yellow, blue and grey, shot a series of test pictures that should help determine how the conditions of space affect color photography...
...with three main clues. One was a sweat-soaked man's T shirt, size 34-38, found on the floor of the living room outside the kitchen. Another was a set of "excellent" fingerprints revealed on a vanity mirror, a purse, a water glass, a door and a plate. The third, and not the least important, was Corazon's description of the killer: a white man, approximately 25 years old, 6 ft. tall, weighing 170 Ibs., with crew-cut brownish hair...