Word: bat
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...climatic shock - it helps to remove as much clothing as you decently can - you find yourself surrounded by giant trees with twisted roots, rubber plants sprouting bell-shaped flowers, raffia palms, orchids and periwinkles. As you pass a large tortoise lurking under a fern and shriek at a fruit bat flying over your head, you may wonder whether you are still in Zurich. And that's how the zoo's director, Alex Rübel, intended it. Opened in June 2003, after a decade of planning and construction, the j33.5 million project boasts such high-tech features as light-sensitive...
...power plays this year we’ve been struggling,” Corriero said. “So it was nice to get a power-play goal off the bat, and kind of inject some life into...
...recently split up with her husband of two years. Johnson was somewhat less thankful to discover that the marriage ended when a suspected infidelity drove her husband into a state of raging delirium that caused him to assail his wife’s lover with an aluminum baseball bat. Johnson was even less thankful to discover that Tracy’s ex is still on the loose. Johnson, however, was least thankful to learn all of this after sleeping with Tracy and making her finally realize — four times — that her ex-husband...
...Muromachi-era princess. No fewer than nine major league teams-including rivals the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox-are reportedly in the running for the services of the 1.75-m shortstop. The question brewing on hot stoves on two continents is not just where this bat-and-glove for hire will wind up but also whether he's willing to change positions or play in the shadow of another Japanese star...
...already visited Yankee Stadium. He traveled to New York City in October to watch a play-off game against the Red Sox, buying three-year-old daughter Haruna a miniature Yankees bat and a pinstripes-clad panda. "The Yankees were so big," he says, "that they made the field look small...