Word: battered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...epic fifth inning, the first Tufts batter Larsen faced, Mike Russo, tagged him for a single. The next batter, Steve Speroni, hit the ball back at Larsen who could not handle it letting him get to first. Berjutti sacrificed Russo to third and Speroni to second and outfielder Bob Norton was put out for the second...
...Crimson nine scored first as the second inning leadoff batter Joe Sciolla reached first on an error by Tufts shortstop Bob Berluti. Sophomore outfielder Tommy Joyce sacrificed him to second and Sciolla scored on a single by captain Dan Williams...
...Payments. The ruling will give fresh momentum to groups seeking to batter down legal barriers based on sex. Wrote Justice William Brennan for the court: "The gender-based distinction [in the Social Security Act] is entirely irrational...
...duty: to wake the town. Silently, he commands, " 'Everyone yawn. Everyone up.' The great house stirred below. 'Grandpa, get your teeth from the water glass!' He waited a decent interval. 'Grandma and Great Grandma, fry hot cakes!' The warm scent of fried batter rose in the drafty hall ... 'Street where all the Old People live, wake up! Miss Helen Loomis, Colonel Freeleigh, Miss Bentley! Cough, get up, take pills, move around! ... The sun began to rise. He folded his arms and smiled a magician's smile. Yes, sir, he thought, everyone jumps...
...knows why one person takes out his frustrations on children and another does not. But to some extent violence runs in families. As Louis Jolyon West, chairman of U.C.L.A.'s psychiatry department, puts it, "There is a remarkable likelihood that parents who batter have been battered themselves as children." New York City's Fontana sees child abuse not only as a self-perpetuating problem but as a training ground for general violence as well. "The eleven, twelve-and 13-year-old murderers we see today," he says, "come from violent homes where they were battered...