Word: battering
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...When we batter back and forth like this, oftentimes it causes many voters just to tune out and term it politics as usual,” Roberts said. But “because of the other active high level races, this is not going to affect turnout in this particular race...
...Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, one of baseball's acknowledged brains, nearly burned out his laptop trying to neutralize Bonds. In the eighth inning of the series' fourth game, he put Bonds on first with no one on base and the score tied 2-2. The next batter, catcher Benito Santiago, hit a home run that won the game. Bonds' presence destroyed the Cardinals in that contest...
...What sets Bond apart from the rest is his mastery of the act of hitting a baseball. No player in any sport is so completely in control as Bonds is when he steps into the batter's box. He reaches base nearly six out of every ten times at the plate, astonishing for a sport where three out of ten makes you a star. That's what makes Bonds a compelling and newsworthy figure; a quality that speaks of clarity and of sureness in a time when both are in short demand...
...Blickstead and friends churn down DeWolfe Street in a protective party huddle, they stumble upon what appears to be an all-female cake-batter-wrestling event in the far corner of the Quincy courtyard. Like Odysseus resisting the call of the Sirens, Blickstead valiantly disregards the vixenish squeals of delight and surprisingly alluring scent of cake batter, and presses ahead, leading the group, now 50 or 100 paces behind him, inexorably onward to Mather...
Indeed, a tremendous plate of “New England style” calamari, coated in a cornmeal batter and served over a bed of spinach leaves with diced tomatoes and piquant pepperoncini ($7.95), was a substantial and successful appetizer. The richness of the fried squid contrasted with the sweet taste of the tomatoes and the zip provided by the hot peppers to enliven a dish that can often, when handled less sensitively, become cloyingly repetitive...