Word: plates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since there are no weighty differences between the U.S. and Ethiopia, the glittering round of gold-plate lunches, dinners and receptions thrown by official Washington were full of sentiment. Said President Kennedy in a dinner toast: "There is really no comparable figure in the world who occupied and held the attention and the imagination of almost all free countries in the mid-'30s and still could in the summer of 1963 in his own capital dominate the affairs of his continent...
...stood proudly at the plate in his pin-stripe New York Yankee uniform, listening to the roar of the huge hometown crowd. "It's a hell of a thing," said Pinch-Hitter Harry Bright. "I wait 17 years to get into a World Series. Then I finally get up there, and 69,000 people are yelling-yelling for me to strike out." Whiff he did, thus capping a spectacular performance-for someone else...
Sometimes it was a smoking fastball, sometimes a tantalizing curve that dropped like an overripe apple across the center of the plate. Whatever it was, the Yankees could not hit it. The top of the Yankee order, producers of 73 home runs this year, did not get the ball in front of the plate until the sixth inning. Mickey Mantle had two Ks beside his name in the scorebook before he managed an infield pop-up-and drop-kicked his batting helmet halfway to the dugout. At last, Tommy Tresh got to Koufax for a two-run homer. But Bobby...
...small copper plate such as might be used to engrave a visiting card, Mr. Barnard cut a pretty profile of the young Queen Victoria, but instead of engraving "Post Paid" along one edge of the stamp,* he made it "Post Office...
...rules, all canons of art vomit death," Ensor said, and his etchings fire from every barrel, trying style after style even within a single year of production. His first plate was done in 1886, when he was only 26, and shows an amazing early technical mastery. By the end of that year, Ensor had ranged in motif from a fine-line portrait of the Swedish botanist Frise to a haggard, almost Hogarthian satire on historical painting in the grand manner, entitled Iston, Pouffamatus, Cracozie and Transmouff, Celebrated Persian Physicians, Examining the Stools of King Darius after the Battle of Arbela...