Word: plateful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter's 54th birthday, and the mood of celebration was upon him. Even before the birthday itself, some 1,000 of the Democratic Party faithful paid $1,000 a plate to join the President in the crowded Washington Hilton ballroom. Leaning forward to admire his multitiered birthday cake, Carter accidentally shoved a hand into the pastry, but nothing could faze him. He simply waved a dripping hand to his admirers. Carter called the affair "the most successful presidential Democratic fund raiser in the history of the U.S.," and he assured the gathering: "We're taking control...
...starter and ex-Yankee Mike Torrez lost his Midas touch in the top of the seventh, though, yielding two singles before shortstop Bucky Dent came to the plate with two outs...
Gilbert and the scientists who accompanied him say the mix-up occurred because a piece of dry rat DNA that was stuck on a glass tube or gel plate apparently mixed with the human genetic material they isolated in preparation for their experiments in England...
...forced John Mayberry to learn the words to "O Canada," then slammed a belt-high fastball to right field. Reggie Jackson went back to the wall, jumped...and came down with nothing. Hurdle ended up with a triple, and after a crash-bang play at the plate for the second out, Patek hit Tidrow's final pitch out of the park...
...suitable ending for Jackson's perfect night at the plate (3 for 3, two walks). His only sour moment came in the seventh, when he got picked off second base while trying to get a good jump on a missed bunt by Chris Chambliss...