Word: plate
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...spin it fiercely, making it sing and dance. From the same arm motion, Pedro can deliver four very different pitches. He has a straight fast ball that approaches 100 m.p.h., a cut fast ball that moves in on left-handed hitters, a curve that suddenly dives for the plate and the game's best change-up, which often has a red-faced hitter completing his swing before the ball arrives...
...family outing--say, on Father's Day--to a good, though never ostentatious, New York City restaurant. In dresses, hats, jackets and ties, we would trudge through the heavy, reluctant revolving door and enter the place of civilization and ceremony. "This way, doctor." This way to the weighted silver plate and the thick linen tablecloths and napkins, and the pie a la mode...
...sophomores vehemently deny their room always has a week-old plate of chicken wings from the dining hall as a floor display piece. As for the various articles of clothing strewn about, they swear they were about to clean them...
...Brian Smith was packing up his stuff in his dad's car, which had "Beef 1" on the license plate. Matt was instantly fascinated by Brian's stories about life on the farm back in Oklahoma...
...While Harvard passed the donation plate to all its alumni, the most money came from the wealthiest few; 75 percent of the money raised came from gifts of over $1 million. The largest gift, from John L. Loeb '24, brought in more than $70 million...