Word: batted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Waugh-like war in Grenada. Naipaul, says his London agent, came "to take some mental pictures." Thompson, says his New York editor, was after "a Hunter piece." The anecdotes are as lush as the Grenadian jungle. Staying at a nearby hotel is a CIA man who lives like a bat, eating beans and canned Dinty Moore stew and going out only at night. Then there is Morgan, the inmate at the bombed-out mental hospital, who turned up one evening playing piano at the Red Crab. Because of his light complexion, he was taken for a Cuban and carted...
...Book, which excised references to the Jews as a chosen people and to the divine revelation of the Torah. His influence was widely felt in the Reform and even Conservative branches of the faith, not least in the perception of the role of women; in 1922 Kaplan introduced the bat mitzvah ceremony for 13-year-old girls, giving them a larger role in religious practices...
...Bat Club had a brief but illustrious history. Founded in 1949, it set up shop in 53 Mt. Auburn St. on the corner of Plympton St., and promptly got rowdy...
...Bat rented its clubhouse, and The Boston Herald reported in 1958 that the club and two other tenants--the Mozart Cafe and the Gold Coast Valeteria--had suffered fire damages...
...Bat's records end in 1965, without a trace of its disposition. Alumni from that era profess ignorance of its demise...