Word: battering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Left field will be filled by Larry Cetrulo, one of the team's leading hitters, and right by Brad Fenton, the leadoff batter. Power hitter Fran Saba will start at third base...
Northeastern threatened in the fifth. The Huskies' leadoff batter cracked out a single and advanced when Lincoln gave up a walk. But when the next Northeastern batter singled, the man on second stumbled rounding third and was forced to hold. A Harvard double play then ended the inning...
...sense, Congress is reflecting the mood of a nation that cannot understand all this upheaval. Its response is that of an ignorant tavern brawler. It lashes out to batter this strange opposition, to squash it so it won't be a problem anymore...
Meyers had a rough second inning, letting one run score and loading the bases before he pitched his way out of the jam. Catcher Pete Varney caught one batter coming home on an attempted squeeze play and the next batter flied out to retire the side...
Alone of the characters in Couples, Piet is married to Iseult-the unreachable Angela, who cannot yield to him though she recognizes him as "the only person who ever tried to batter through to me." Life with Angela thus becomes for Piet an unbearable nostalgia, embodied in her, and his salvation comes down to a matter of attempting to tolerate the intolerable. They are "ordained for divorce," says Updike, and their submission is an acknowledgment of death's approach...