Word: platter
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...Whatever will be, will be./ The future's not ours to see." Que Sera, Sera, the 1956 platter, may sound a bit soupy and syncopated today. But when Rock Star Sly Stone, 29, of Sly and the Family Stone, heard the mother of Record Producer Terry Melcher sing it at her very own piano, he was turned...
...fire escape to the third-floor window of a program director's office so that he could spring inside with his wares. Another managed to pose as a waiter in a program director's favorite restaurant, then served up his "push" single to the program director on a silver platter...
Each of the tables set up at the Armory had as its centerpiece a platter of fruit, cheese and bread. The bars at the corners of the hall served wine and champagne as the only hard drinks. Incredibly, there was no beer. "A political rally without beer?" one reporter exclaimed. "I never thought the state of Massachusetts would sink...
...greatest sport around. Two five-member teams stand on boundaries set 15 yards apart and take turns hurling a Pro Model Frisbee so hard, or on so tricky a trajectory, that no opponent can make a clean one-handed grab. It sounds easy, but catching the acrobatic platter can be as difficult as catching Vida Blue fastballs without a glove. Points are awarded to the throwing team if the receivers muff a catch, and to the receiving team if a throw goes too wide or too high. The first team to score 21 points wins. Desperate lunges, volleyball-style tips...
...Ambassador to the U.N. complained candidly: "The U.S. has pulled the rug out from under our feet in the U.N. The damage to us is immeasurable." The proposed Nixon trip, he said, shows that "Communist intransigence pays off" and "hands a prestige victory to the Communists on a silver platter...