Word: plateful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth meted out the penalty, citing Andujar's outburst during a fifth-inning dispute with plate umpire Don Denkinger, followed by the pitcher's explosion in the visitor's clubhouse...
...Beverly Wilshire Hotel ballroom was filled by the 755 people who attended the $200-per-plate benefit. Gregory Peck, Sidney Poitier and Paul Newman were among those Hollywood notables on hand for the fete...
Some of those who attended shelled out $5000 for a special "angel plate," for which they received a golden angel complete with rhinestone halo and crimson "H" emblazoned on its chest...
...aftermath, Yasser Arafat said the U.S. was guilty of "cowboy logic." It seemed to Americans an oddly flat and barbless phrase, something like the boiler-plate invective ("capitalist roaders," "unreliable elements") for which Communist regimes have a dreary genius. Terrorism is a haunted house, theater in the shadows. It needs its ugly special effects. Terror depends, so to speak, upon absolute artistic control. But suddenly in the Achille Lauro case, the house lights came up, and Arafat found himself blinking uncomfortably at the audience. No wonder his rhetoric sounded lame...
freshmen: freshmen are not allowed to row varsity crew in men's competition, so they form their own freshmen boats. The 1983 Harvard freshmen won the Ladies Challenge Plate at Henley, the second most prestigious event at that regatta...