Word: battering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This adaptation of the traditional baseball batter's helmet has two cup holders mounted on top of the hat which connect to the wearer's mouth with surgical hose. Fill the styrafoam cups, connect the hose and drinking becomes a hands-off matter...
...favorite appetizer is the popular Cajun popcorn, bits of shellfish cooked in batter and dipped in a tangy onion sauce. To our disappointment, however, crabmeat was substituted for the traditional crawfish tails. The fish gumbo, a soup thick with seafood and orzo, also satisfies. The shrimp remoulade--cold shrimp in an unconventional hot mustard sauce--would pass muster if it included more shrimp and less lettuce...
...lead-off batter is Brandon Tartikoff, a sharp-fielding spray hitter in his sixth season as president of NBC Entertainment and third baseman on the company softball team. As Tartikoff steps to the plate against the Warner Bros. squad, a giant radio in the bleachers begins to blast out the driving theme song from Miami Vice. Inspired, Tartikoff slaps a double, leading NBC to a four-run inning. The team's "music manager" puckishly announces that all who have not hit safely must henceforth bat to the somewhat less blood- quickening theme from Punky Brewster...
...started down at the first batter, rocked slightly, kicked and fired...
...precious to as at that time." Wentzell said. "He took away his number of two batter to give us an out. That's who our second run in that inning was so important...