Word: plateful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first game, Co-Captain Gia Barresi went 3-for-4 from the plate, smashing two doubles and a single for two RBI. The Crimson collected 12 hits, with junior Mary Baldauf and sophomore Liz Crowley each recording triples...
Such colorful eating brings a bonus in human contacts. Waiters and waitresses are especially solicitous, offering to show foreign guests exactly how to convey a jiaozi from plate to mouth with chopsticks so that the dumpling remains intact with no loss of broth. The Westerner who can master the technique may be rewarded with a free meal, plus a tour of the kitchen, where workers grinningly pose for pictures and shyly call, "Hello," the one English word they seem to know...
...Crimson didn't do much at the plate against Clemens. In fact, it did virtually nothing. But then again, neither did most of the teams in the American League last year...
Cincinnati sent 12 batters to the plate against loser Floyd Youmans and two relievers in the fourth...
...classiest autos, including Rolls-Royces, Porsches and BMWs. Naturally, the company also expects its clients to have some class and certainly to be above petty vandalism. But Avon President Stuart Silver reports that more than half of last year's 12,000 rentals came back without the rear license-plate frame. The frames have Avon Rent-a-Car printed on them, and Silver reasons that customers who shell out $350 a day for a Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible "want everybody to think it's their...