Word: plateful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...files. Though the candidates have had the Times request for more than a month, none have complied completely and nearly all are complaining about its scope. Says Patricia O'Brien, press secretary to Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis: "You ask questions. You don't say, 'Here is my plate. Fill...
...feet times 90 miles an hour, which is 475,200 feet in one hour, which is 3,600 seconds that you've got to divide by, which gives you 132 feet per second, but since it's about 55 feet from where the ball is released to the plate, you've got to divide again, and that gives you .44 seconds, assuming the ball drops 3 feet because of gravity...
...table, David Bergh was explaining, "A 90 mile-an-hour fastball takes .44 seconds to reach home plate...
...lift-off was recorded on a photographic plate; the bulb of a mounted bellows camera was put into the hand of a North Carolina surfman, who was told when to squeeze. His timing was perfect, but Wilbur was too excited to punch his stopwatch and had to estimate the duration of the event. Ten years later, a curtly precise Orville described what had happened during those unofficial 12 sec.: "a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own power into the air in full flight, had sailed forward without reduction of speed, and had finally landed...
...stories. Wasn't it fun? Wasn't she pleased, the ancient matriarch who, in a time so distant that it seems made up, slid you out soaked, milky, blind into the sheets? On her designated "day," that same panting, sweating girl sat dry as a museum bone, a china plate receiving alms...