Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Twelve Americans were among the 42 persons killed in the terrorist bombing of the fashionable My Canh (Beautiful Scenery) restaurant, actually a converted houseboat anchored near a Saigon River bank. The force of the blast hurled diners through plate-glass windows, left the decks of the vessel awash with blood and strewn with bod ies. In an agony of grief, a Vietnamese man held up the dead body of his little boy, begged photographers to picture...
Whimsicalities & Sound Effects. His youthful ambition was to use that aim to put a sharp-breaking curve over the plate. He was a pitcher for Washington and Lee University, played two seasons of semi-pro ball, and hoped to be a full-fledged professional. "I had a great screwball," he claims. "But one day they told me I would never make it, so I went to Yale and took a Ph.D. in something called American Studies...
...beating the Mets, who had lost ten games in a row. He started off with a whiz, throwing three straight strikes at the first batter he faced: Outfielder Billy Cowan, 26, who walked away muttering "I never even saw the ball." One after another, the Mets paraded to the plate; one after another, they slunk back to the dugout. Third Baseman Charlie Smith struck out three times and sighed: "Nobody has ever pitched a baseball faster." First Baseman Ed Kranepool, the Mets' only .300 hitter, insisted-with a tendency toward the cliche-that "Maloney should be in a league...
Life is the fruit they long to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly they understand...
European food-Every blasted plate...