Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson's starting catcher will be senior , Whose main asset is one way he handles pitchers. "He was one of the big reasons our staff was so effective last spring," Shepard said. At the plate, Miller is no terror; he batter .238 last season. But he is a good clutch batter, and knocked in 18 runs with 20 last season...
John Brown started out as a land lubber. A onetime Sheffield cutlery apprentice, Founder Brown ventured into steelmaking in 1840, expanded into railway rails and armor plate. In a dispute with his directors, Sir John resigned in 1871, later died in poverty. The company grew on through wars and depression, hardly paused in the late 1940s, when the Labor government nationalized its coal and steel subsidiaries. It Used a $15 million compensation to modernize plants and acquire machine-tool companies. When the Tories offered back the denationalized mills in 1953, John Brown was doing so well that it turned them...
...York Timesman Russell Baker had another suggestion: "The Disposable Embassy." It is designed to be thrown away, said Baker. "It is in the great tradition of the obsolescent car, the zip-top beer can and the throwaway plate. Immediately after each stoning, looting or burning, the used embassy would be put in the trash and a fresh one installed in its place. The question is how to build into the Disposable Embassy enough destructive satisfaction to leave a typical Indonesian or Hungarian feeling that he had really done a good day's work against...
...where the sport was introduced just three years ago. Predictably, the New Guineans lost every game. Just as predictably, the U.S. was the favorite. After all, Americans invented the sport in 1887, and today something like 3,500,000 men, along with 500,000 women, step up to the plate each year to whack the old grapefruit around...
Just thinking about her out there on second was enough to rattle U.S. Pitcher Lo Piano. She uncorked a wild pitch, and Eleanor never even slowed down rounding third, slid headfirst across home plate with the run that gave the Aussies a 1-0 victory. The Yanks were ladies to the end. Game over, they repaired to the locker room...