Word: bats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second category, research and development, is more spectacular. During World War II the bureau produced the only successful guided missile ("the bat"), and the uncanny proximity fuse. Recently it has gone into electronic computers, turning out two for the Air Force that are probably the fastest in operation. In any future war, the bureau will be the laboratory behind the laboratories that design the fighting machines...
...ladies and medical students poured in, Rep. Nathanson went to bat for his bill. Only dogs and cats condemned to die anyway would be used he insisted. "Do you really think that doctors slink around in corners looking for dogs they can torture...
...besides, it's never wise to get the Church down on one"). But God does not seem to help much. In the eyes of his friends, Diogène is a marked man. Accepted witnesses see him "in the guise of a werewolf," flapping wings like a giant bat, as a huge hog with seven lighted candles on his head...
...Reformatory authorities noted that he was neat, quiet, and wrote a "nice hand." But he started endless fights. At 17, he was sent to the Missouri State Penitentiary, where he gained a measure of fame among the convicts by hitting a fellow inmate over the head with a baseball bat. When he got out last year, he was 21a short, heavy-shouldered, brooding youth with a pimply, undershot chin, and the legend H-a-r-d L-u-c-k tattooed on his knuckles...
Northeastern 's hockey team and the varsity didn't do much more than bat the puck around the Arena ice for three periods just, last night, but the Crimson managed to sink more goals, and won a sloppy game, 3 to 1. The score would have been higher, too had not Husky goalie Ray Picard turned in a fine job in the nets...