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Word: batted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former army officers, modernize Russia's oil industry, expand private efforts like the Salvation Army's Moscow soup kitchens and expedite the delivery of critical medical supplies. Administration aides know that even this size program will not be popular with American voters, but say the President will go to bat for it publicly and may even ask for more. "Clinton's not afraid of this one," says a senior official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Friend in Need | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

...small, proud community of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, has been in pain ever since four young football players from the local high school were accused in 1989 of luring a 17-year- old retarded girl into a basement and penetrating her with a broomstick handle and a baseball bat, while a group of friends watched. Last week three of those charged, Christopher Archer, now 20, and 21-year-old twins Kevin and Kyle Scherzer, were found guilty of sexual assault. All four, including Bryant Grober, 21, were convicted of conspiracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Irresponsible Acts | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

...whole atmosphere was totally informal. Players did windsprints in the outfield during the game. Some Angels snuck behind the bleachers to a cage. Fans could watch Rod Carew--Rod Carewl--swing a bat less than 10 feet away, permitting an exchange of insults and batting tips. And home runs were catchable for folks who brought mitts, though I never caught...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: SPRING TRAINING: PARADISE FOUND | 3/26/1993 | See Source »

This green new season, the winner so far is Kevin Baker's first novel, Sometimes You See It Coming. This one ends the way a baseball story should: three and two, two out in the ninth, legend at bat. It starts with a young phenom, a rangy, unsmiling white kid named John Barr, who turns up in the shabby locker room of a Class A team in the West Virginia coalfields. He hasn't played organized ball. He doesn't even own a set of spikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Misty About Baseball | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

...Right off the bat we were blowing them away," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polo Reaches Semis of Tourney | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

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