Word: bat
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...bats started making their home under the red roof during Khmer Rouge rule, when the museum was vacant. By the early 1990s, curators were desperate to evict them as droppings?up to a ton a month?coated the artifacts below and threatened to collapse the second-floor ceiling. A putrid stench distracted gallery patrons, and on one memorable occasion, bat lice in the air elicited an allergic reaction from a visiting Thai princess...
...however, illustrates the greatest problems undergraduates have with their foremost academic and personal advisors. For according to Lewis’ explanation, a student could presumably have three different senior tutors from their sophomore to their senior year—and the College wouldn’t even think to bat an eye. Students are presumably meant to develop relationships with these academic advisors and general welfare guardians. But how can these relationships ever become personal or intimate ones when the nature of it is so frail and tenuous...
...like it gets too worn in at home in London—I helped the Crimson team to another 23-2 victory. This was it, I thought: a turning point. Come what may, I was an all-American boy. England had much to offer, but the crack of the bat was just too much to resist. It was in my blood, you see. Nature had at last won out over nurture. And then the game was written up in Monday’s Crimson and I found myself described as an “expatriate Englishman...
...Hale struck out swinging his next at-bat, and Lopez flew out to center to end the threat. The Crimson left eight runners on base yesterday, compared to UMass?...
...sitting pretty,” Mann said of the at-bat. “I got a fastball and just jumped...