Word: plattered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lonesome oyster got sadder and moister. Like the Theodore Roosevelts and the A. G. Vanderbilts, he lived at Oyster Bay, but not at the same altitude. He longed for the high life. Eventually, on a round silver platter, he got his wish...
...Silver Platter. All too frequently, complain restaurant owners, guests use doggie bags to haul off pilfered ashtrays, pepper mills, and silverware. A waiter in a smart West Coast spot got suspicious when a svelte woman customer actually demanded a doggie bag before taking a single bite of the sizzling steak he had just set before her. When he inquired discreetly if she were feeling unwell, she explained that her girdle was killing her; after a visit to the ladies' room, she returned to polish off the steak, her girdle doggie-bagged under her chair...
Thus Scranton was waging a war on two fronts, one against Goldwater, the other against the incumbent President. He missed no opportunity to contrast his views with Goldwater's, and Barry, with his vote against the civil rights bill, served up Scranton a golden issue on a silver platter. No sooner had Goldwater announced that he would naysay the civil rights measure than Scranton shot off a telegram. "I urge you," he wired, "to repudiate your opposition to the civil rights bill by voting yes on final passage. Your views on the subject to date are opposed...
...dues of $65 a year to forgather in an atmosphere that more or less suggests the living room of an impoverished baron in the family castle-glowering big game, crossed swords, a fireplace, and a half-acre tapestry. From a glassed-in aerie above the two-story room, a platter spinner manipulates the mood of the members with variety and volume, and things can get pretty wild as the evening wears on. But Le Club, which blasted off to an initial success that drained El Morocco to its zebra skins, is no longer the jet center it used...
...they entered the national pancake eating championship at the Inter-national House of Pancakes in Brighton yesterday. But when members of the Crimson duos had downed their first stack of three pancakes, and saw Henry--a 6 ft., 5 in., 240 pound B.U. football player--calling for his second platter of 18 it became obvious that Harvard and Radcliffe very going to got clobbered...