Word: plateful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plate against Delaware, Harvard had a tough time of it, as 6-ft., 3-in. 220-lb righty Bo Dennis served up an impressive mixture of fastballs, sweeping curves, and uncharacteristic good control...
Starter Ron Stewart pitched adequately, but he failed to get the necessary support at the plate. Bingham fanned with Stenhouse on second and two down in the sixth. Stenhouse and Bingham, Harvard's leading hitters on the year, batted a combined 0-for-11 for the tourney...
...Naclerio laid down a suicide squeeze bunt, which McOsker fielded and pegged to first for one out. One run in but Don Troyan never stopped running from second, and first-bagger Mark Bingham's throw came high and late to home plate. Catcher Chuck Marshall nailed Ed D'Alessio (he'd been on first) trying to sneak into third, ending an incredible play and an incredible inning...
...ethic in the shape of school work. Take, for example, a young woman who dutifully begins reading Samuelson or Campbell or Marx or whoever--but reaching the end of the page she realizes that the words have slid over her eyes like soft-boiled eggs on a white plastic plate. She begins again with renewed fervor and determination. And once more, the glint of sunlight on the river, the bouncing body that jogs by, the red girl playing a congo drum with Mao plastered on its side, the frisbee that nearly breaks her nose, distract her already wavering concentration...
...comprehensive alternative foreign policy. Commented State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III: "The purpose of the opposition is to oppose, and such resolutions I don't find particularly surprising nor do I think they are particularly edifying" (see ESSAY). Added a high Administration official: "It is pure boiler plate ... Its partisanship is transparent and it doesn't begin to tell us what we ought to be doing instead." If such an attempt had been made, presumably the unanimity among Republicans as diverse as Clifford Case and Barry Goldwater would instantly have dissolved...