Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antiaircraft shell that pierced his intestines and lodged near his left hip. He was taken to a makeshift field hospital on a South Pacific island, where the live shell was removed by three Navy doctors (of whom I was one), working around a chin-high screen of armor plate...
...Shaw ever played the "inscrutable" game, he might have looked like that indeed, bending over the plate in knickers and Norfolk jacket and slamming line drives all over the field. The thought amused English Actor Bramwell Fletcher, 60, as he assembled his evening of Shavian sport, The Bernard Shaw Story, a one-man show now playing in Manhattan. Fletcher gleaned a few lines from Shaw's 1925 essay "This Baseball Madness," and added them to his impersonation. Wielding his unlikely prop, Fletcher-Shaw muses: "As far as I can grasp it, baseball combines the best features of primitive cricket...
More often than not, however, ministers have found that a strong stand on civil rights pays off in the collection plate. A common experience is that attempts to silence the church through financial pressure inspire more sympathetic laymen to make up for any lost pledges...
...contrast, the Beame team's campaign was a study in machine-made overconfidence. Abe Beame made little effort to woo undecided voters, seemed happy only among people that he knew were on his side. One evening in late October, while Beame was beaming at a $100-a-plate banquet for Democrats (menu: brandy-flavored bisque of Mississippi crawfish, filet mignon perigourdine, string beans saute amandine, bombe glacee Americana, petits fours), John Lindsay's dinner was a gulped ham sandwich between one curbstone speech and the next...
...sturdy gains. As they have for some time, corporate profits in many cases climbed even faster than sales or the economy in general. Record third-quarter earnings were reported by such giants as Colgate-Palmolive, Socony-Mobil Oil, Dow Chemical, Bank of America, Union Carbide, General Telephone, and Pittsburgh Plate Glass. United Airlines' profits were up 77% from the third quarter of last year, American Can's 29%, Celanese...