Word: bats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asphyxiation. Hartley's technical aplomb helped to make The Go-Between (TIME, Aug. 9, 1954) one of the most admired novels of its year. In A Perfect Woman he demonstrates with good humor and feline subtlety how many ways there are for an author to tap and bat his characters around before crunching them jovially on the last page...
Combined Operations. In Phoenix, Ariz., after he held up the House of Jazz and stuffed $270 in his pocket, John Tillman was slugged with a blackjack by Owner John Giardina, cracked with a baseball bat by Waitress Phyllis Dixon, smacked with a steel chair by another waitress, punched in the jaw by Giardina's brother, bashed on the head with a beer bottle wielded by a patron, arrested when another customer called the cops...
...early thirties for very long. Soon letters were being sent to all alumni to aid in paying off a mortgage. This drive did not meet with the best of success, and, as a result, the Advocate was forced to allow the presence of Benny Jacobson below it and The Bat Club above. This situation is not really the Scylla and Charybdis that it would seem: The Gold Coast keeps quite, and the Bats only make curious thumping noises...
...next came to bat with Nightmare in Red, on Armstrong Circle Theater, its long-heralded story of "how Communism came to Russia and became a world menace." The early footage from old news films was devoted to the Czarist decay that made Communism possible,and there were fine shots of the Romanovs at play while revolutionaries were being ineffectually routed out of cellars. For the upheavals of the Bolshevik age, Producer Henry Salomon leaned heavily on excerpts from such great Eisenstein films as Potemkin and Ten Days That Shook the World. All in all, the story of tyranny rampant...
...broke my bat on Johnny's head, Somebody snitched on me I hid a frog in sister's bed, Somebody snitched...