Word: batted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). It hadda happen: "The Bat Cave Affair...
Holy barracuda! Now, thanks to that diabolical device, the camera, the truth is out! Divested of his bat cowl, the caped crusader is none other than U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman E. William Henry, 37, who roared out of his cave to do a comic song-and-dance at a Multiple Sclerosis Society benefit in Washington. But an evildoer took his picture. Would the caped commissioner repeat the act before the Women's National Democratic Club as requested? Would the network archenemies of ABC-TV's Batman think the chairman was giving dastardly publicity to the bat channel...
...Bags Full, by Jerome Chodorov. Seme actors need funny lines to be funny. Paul Ford needs only Paul Ford. His face is in perpetual mourning; he can bat out a laugh by not batting an eye. His body is always on the point of settling, like a house. His mind works like a stopped clock, and the time is half-past McKinley. Indeed, part of what makes him so phenomenally droll is the sense that three or four entire generations have passed him by and left his features mottled in nonplused fury...
...quite enough to warrant a strictly literary biography. Biographer O'Connor, whose previous books have shown a taste for the minor figures in America's past-Bat Masterson, James Gordon Bennett Jr., Jack London-sensibly confines himself to the life and the figure of the man. Both make handsome contributions to the kind of story that O'Connor enjoys telling and consequently tells very well...
...Harvard hockey team struck out Saturday night at the Boston Garden, losing its third game of the year to Yale, 6-5. The Crimson had gone to bat for a .500 season mark, third place in the Ivy League, and a possible bid to the ECAC playoffs--and went off the ice frustrated, humiliated, and empty-handed...