Word: batted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Think about it-a dirty puppet show. An evil puppet chains a lissome nude to a pillar and tickles her to death with a long pink feather. A vast bat helps tear the clothes off an undulating stripper, then flies away with her. A bawdy Balinese girl is seduced in a swimming pool. Bare-breasted beauties hang in bird cages over the audience, or parade around the stage, heaving, wiggling, sighing, shaking, and saucing the house...
...customer of the Fabergé establishment in London was the former Empress Eugenie of France, who spent most of her time lamenting the loss of her empire ("I told you I died in 1870") and the loss of her youth ("I'm just a fluttering old bat"). Edward VII constantly demanded new surprises, exclaiming gruffly "We must have no duplicates!" In a single day, Fabergé's biographer H. C. Bainbridge remembers, the house of Fabergé played host to the King and Queen of Norway, the Kings of Denmark and Greece, and Alexandra, Edward's consort...
Though he was a good fielder and had a fair batting eye, he was no long-ball hitter. It took him the better part of three seasons and 1,675 times at bat to hit his first major league home run. But in 1960, his first full year in the majors. Wills stole so many bases (50) that the Dodgers' front office presented him with the second-base sack from their home park...
...jumped and went back in. it was like bombs hitting the water." On an annual fishing trip to Cape Hatteras. N.C.. Gary Stukes, 37, a sales engineer from Morristown. N.J., had hooked into an angler's dream: a huge blue marlin with a bill like a baseball bat and a temperament to match. In the first few seconds the leaping, head-shaking fish ripped off 400 yds. of 130-lb. test line; it took another 1 hr. 20 min. to get the giant blue into the boat. It measured an even 14 ft. from bill to scythelike tail...
...Hodges, still a hero in Flatbush, Pitcher Roger Craig, another well-remembered ex-resident of Ebbets Field. And they sure did try: in six of their 14 lonely victories, they came from behind to win; in 21 of their 37 defeats, they managed to get the tying run to bat in the last inning. Even in defeat, they had humor. "That feller can hit it to the centerfield wall," said Casey of one Met regular, "if only they don't curve it first." In one game, the Mets left eleven runners stranded, failed to score with the bases loaded...