Word: bats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stepped into the elaborate, gilded presidential elevator, he halted, and his eyes twinkled behind gold spectacles. "Just one moment, please," he said. "I must have a glass of water. I cannot go to Congress for the first time as President and start asking for water right off the bat. They'll think I shall never stop asking for things...
...farm near Bay, Ark., Wally and his father sweated over the fundamentals of baseball. When he was still a barefoot boy in blue jeans, Wally was playing Legion ball with the Jonesboro (Ark.) Juniors, and big-league scouts were already impressed with his speed and his easy skill at bat. But Wally's father thought that even a ballplayer could use a college education...
Power of Suggestion. In Toledo, a summer-stock production of Dracula was interrupted when a bat flew in the front door, barged around for 20 minutes until finally knocked down...
...summer recess to turn up anywhere, turned up in Australia hobnobbing with outbackers. After a week's trial of aboriginal delicacies, he was still in ruddy good health. Sample daily menu: scrambled turtle eggs for breakfast, stuffed high-jumping wallaby for lunch, roast flying fox (an outsize bat) for dinner...
...folly of an old fool in love (Pratolini's A Mistress of Twenty, Italo Svevo's This Indolence of Mine), the dark rapture of revenge (Cesare Pavese's The Leather Jacket), and the metaphysical pingpong of illusion v. reality (Luigi Pirandello's The Bat...