Word: battering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Massachusetts State Senator Cecile Hicks, an alternate from the fifth Middlesex district, said Weld dealt with his feeling on abortion tactfully and couldn't have done a batter job with his speech...
...delightful visit to Munich and Helsinki -- sumptuous three- wine dinners, an evening at the ballet, VIP tours of castles. But like other tourists, he also had his pocket picked. Bush had repeatedly vowed that at the Group of Seven summit of leading industrial democracies he would fight to batter down barriers to U.S. exports and thus create more jobs for Americans. Instead, the other six (Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan) shifted the focus away from trade and toward the civil war in what used to be Yugoslavia...
...next batter hit a grounder to sophomore Ann Kennon, who tried unsucessfully to nail the runner at the plate...
Going to a game reminds adults of playing Little League baseball as kids; of hustling to first, of sliding into home, of striking out that final batter to end the game...
...second game, batter Kelley Houston fouled off several Carr fastballs. When Carr finally caught her looking at a low pitch, Houston walked to the bench met by her teammates' high fives...