Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the still-unheralded Jones, with a percentage that hovered around the .345 mark, was bunched with three other players in a race for the batting leadership of the National League. In recognition of Jones' fearsome reputation at the plate, opposing pitchers recently walked him three times (twice intentionally) in one game, an honor rarely afforded anemic Met batters...
...Tommie Agee. "We played stickball when we were kids," he explains, "and there was this porch on the first-base side. If you hit the ball up there it was lost, and it wasn't easy to get another one. So naturally, when I came up to the plate lefthanded, they made me switch over. That's really how it happened...
...middle of the spring term, the Boston Elevated Railway Co. lowered the rates of a ride to Park St. from 8c to 5c. Apparently to took too much time to count the pennies. The Federal Railway Commission set the price of meals on interstate rail-roads at $1.25 a plate, thus assuring that Californians would no longer have to fast on their four-day trip East...
...Banging Plates. If the conference posed problems for the Soviet leaders, they were certainly putting up a breezy and self-confident front. Attired in a natty gray single-breasted suit and a red tie, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev led a covey of Politburo members on a four-hour tour of Automation 69, an international exhibit of new electronic equipment that is being held in Moscow's Sokolniki Park. In a jovial mood, Brezhnev singled out pretty girls for handshakes, embraced Communist exhibitors with Russian bear hugs, and chatted amiably at Western stands. Eying the new equipment at the French...
...Temp has four basic test dishes: eggs Benedict ("You can tell a lot from the consistency of the hollandaise"), vol-au-vent ("So often it's gucky"), bouillabaisse ("Every maritime country has its own version") and coquilles St. Jacques. He is an expert at moving food around on his plate to make it look as though he is eating more than he is?all the while surreptitiously scribbling away in a gold-covered notebook designed to look like a cigarette case. Despite his precautions, Fielding is occasionally recognized. Then, as he tells it, displaying his notorious aversion to the first...