Word: plateful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time they called it corporal-and perhaps to help me celebrate, they issued us new helmets, made of one of the latest fibers -"Kevlar." It's very light and is supposed to be strong enough to turn away high-velocity frags like it was armor plate or something. The only trouble is, it looks like those coal scuttles the Germans wore in World War I. And I'm not so sure you could make stew...
...hosts' thirst for runs was not quenched and they returned for two more in the third inning. Stewart was victimized for the two scores after a couple of walks and a base hit. Steve Baloff relieved Stewart and surrendered a single but a Woodsman was chopped down at the plate to end the inning...
...your Gov. 106b paper, but decided that it is only an hour till lunch and by the time you set the typewriter up, look up how to do footnotes in that book from Expos freshman year, and crack your knuckles a few times it will be time for salad plate 21 and vegetarian cheeseburger...
...anything," says Cindy Brennan, 18, who worked on the Hennessey bright barn of portraits. With the farmer won over, the whole community would pitch in with the spirit of a pioneer barn raising. Local merchants contributed paintbrushes, rollers, tarps and scaffolding. Adult volunteers provided transportation and meals. Pittsburgh Plate Glass and Sears, Roebuck supplied the paint. As many as 15 to 25 teen-agers helped plot the design, scaled it up on the barn wall and daubed in the pigments. It was "like painting in a giant coloring book," says Kelly Zeiman...
...troubled period recaptured in Five Seasons. This bittersweet collection of baseball reporting recounts the fading of other summer truths. Many clubs have ripped up the grass in the ballparks and installed artificial surfaces ("the cheaper spread"). Pitchers in the American League no longer take their cuts at the plate; some thing called a designated hitter does that for them. Thanks to the delay of league play-offs and the lure of prime-time TV ratings, World Series games are regularly played on frigid October evenings. Last fall in Cincinnati, Angell notes, "the wretched, blanket-wrapped, huddled masses in the stands...