Word: battered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shiny, sanitary and serene are Childs' restaurants, home of white table tops, of gleaming nickel, of starched waitresses. In the windows, immaculate young ladies flip purest batter-cakes to the attraction, the invitation, of passersby. Old or new Childs' restaurants are superficially models of efficiency, of smoothness, of business divorced from friction...
...arriving safely, or shrill furious ones when they are tagged. The terminology of baseball in Japan is identical with that in the U. S.; it is strange to hear the hordes of rooters, their eyes swimming with suspense, abusing pitchers in their own tongue but calling on the batter to ''swat a homer...
...pitchers from taking their turns, the chances are that managers would discover some player short on brains and fielding prowess, but able to hit them far and frequently, who would stay on the roster as a hitter and nothing else, to the exclusion of the pitcher from the batter...
...Purdy, the chatterer, the magpie. They considered Andy Cohen, smart at second for the Giants, surprising at bat, prize of the seven-years' search of Manager McGraw for a Jewish player to pull in the New York crowds. But baseball games are won at bat and it was batters the critics talked about most on the Fourth of July, singling from among them the two leading their respective leagues on that day. On that day Leon Allen "Goose" Goslin was batting close to .414 for Washington. Sharp-nosed, sharp-chinned, sharp-eyed, amiable, fast, lazy, and a tireless autographer...
General Umberto Nobile and friends were last week being rescued. Ice breakers from Norway and Russia, airplanes from Italy and France, Finland and Sweden, sought to batter their way to three moving targets on the Arctic ice packs. From the chaos of radio messages, authentic and faked, which told of the disaster to the expedition of Polar Pilgrim Nobile, these facts at length emerged: Pilgrim Nobile with five companions, one seriously injured, was perilously adrift on an island of blinding ice, which was growing steadily smaller as water channels opened; seven men, cast loose in the airship after the wreck...