Word: plateful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japanese, though, are the past masters at making such words pay their way. Sutoraiku, for example, is the kind of strike that a pitcher throws across the plate, while sutoraiki is the kind that workers go out on. It was inevitable that the Japanese would import "word processor" and just as inevitable that they would shorten it to wa-pro. Then the younger generation seized it and made it stand for "worst proportions," meaning an unattractive woman...
...over the horizon to a target 26 miles away. The two-year refitting also added long- range Tomahawk missiles, medium-range Harpoon missiles and four 20-mm Gatling- type guns designed to throw out a "wall of lead" to stop incoming missiles. Combined with her 13.5-in. armor plate and 212,000 horsepower, the weapons give the Navy an asset that amounts to more than just a national historical treasure. "She can run with any task force we put together," says Captain George Fink, who oversaw the Missouri's modernization...
...After one laborious climb, Barbara Borkin, a vice president of Halston Fragrances in New York City, muttered, "War and Peace wasn't this long." The meals are justly infamous as well. "You eat here only what you throw away at home," chortles Bennstrom. Typical Ashram lunch: a small fruit plate, plus a dish of cottage cheese with six stranded raisins flanking a lone strawberry. A cowbell used to guard the refrigerator from desperate raiders; it was abandoned as excessive, but the food still is not. At dinner one night, Brad Rosenberg, 43, a Los Angeles real estate developer, set aside...
...Next stop: Melrose Avenue. To shop the trendy boutiques of Melrose with Molly Ringwald is to watch elegant saleswomen grovel. Having word get out that this young fashion plate buys from your shop is the rag-trade equivalent of hitting all six numbers in the California lottery. At Comme des Garcons, a tiny Frenchwoman behind the counter compliments Molly on her Paleolithic do and watches her try on a pair of suede lace-up granny shoes. $49, and out she strides, in her late-for-the-train gait, past two punked-out teens. "That was Molly Ringwald!" one insists...
...What happened to him was like being operated on at home plate with a spike, and home plate isn't an operating room," Pappas said...