Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...citizens are beginning to attach more and more importance to a 6-in. by 12-in. piece of metal that is each man's uniquely private property: his auto license plate. And this means that for a growing number of families January is the crudest month. For that is when many new plates are issued, and it is getting so that there are not enough low numbers and letter combinations to go round-no matter what one may be willing...
...wife ordered chicken for dinner one evening-knowing that it is not one of the President's favorite dishes and that Lyndon probably would not eat too much. At lunch one day last week, Lyndon noticed that his guests got banana pudding for dessert while his plate was left empty. "I don't know what Mrs. Johnson is doing here," said he. "I want some of that dessert." He picked up the service bell, and the tinkle soon brought him some banana pudding...
...Michigan's Governor George Romney returned to Salt Lake City, where he had spent part of his youth, to address 1,300 Republicans at a $50-a-plate G.O.P. fund-raising dinner. Much of his speech was devoted to championing civil rights, partly to counter the notion that the Mormon church discriminates against Negroes. At a press conference he said: "There is no concept in the church that the Negro can't attain anything that I can attain in this life or the next." Then Romney said he was not a presidential candidate...
When American helicopter crewmen in South Viet Nam begin a mission over Communist territory, they never fail to take foot-square chunks of thick steel plate. As seat pads, the pieces of steel are not much comfort. But as protection from Red bullets, they often mean the difference between life and intestine-ripping death. "Pucker up, and pray," is the cry over the intercoms as the brave men who fly the choppers into the Mekong Delta head off toward the land of vertical gunfire...
...have the best team, but I sure have the sexiest ballpark." He installed all kinds of odd gimmicks-a "Fan-O-Gram" that spelled out messages on the Scoreboard (sample: "Welcome to Paul Richards and his flock of chirping Baltimore Orioles"), a "Little Blowhard" that dusted home plate with compressed air, a mechanical rabbit named Harvey that rose out of the ground and fed baseballs to the umpire. He dressed his A's in green-and-gold uniforms ("Kelly green and Finley gold," explained one player), installed a flock of green-andgold-blanketed sheep on a grassy slope behind...