Word: batting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shelley Winters is a guest villainess as the matriarch of a gaggle of gunmen in "The Greatest Mother of Them All." Throw her in jail, and before anyone can say "Gleeps!" she takes over the pen-warden and all. Fear not. The dynamic duo bat down this Mommaniac...
...brain to run through the student's record of instruction and achievement and pick his next drill. One reading drill, for instance, consists of teaching the student to combine the initial sounds r, p and b with the endings an, at and ag, to make ban, pan, ran, bat, pat, rat, bag and rag. As each word flashes on the screen, the taped voice pronounces it. Then, for example, the computer's taped voice asks the student to touch the word ran on the screen with a "light pen." A correct response brings an encouraging "Yes. That...
...York's new master of games also showed up on Central Park's Mall to introduce Batman and Robin and dutifully wore his Bat tie. "It unfolds and becomes a cape," he told the awed gaggle of youngsters. He was also on hand for the Beatles at Shea Stadium, stopped off to buy a new Honda Hawkeye for faster mobility through traffic, and was ad-libbing at an outdoor park fashion show, backed by the blasting rock 'n' roll of a Yale combo known as the Five-Card Stud, when he got a call from...
...Take Gaylord Jackson Perry, 27, who pitches for the San Francisco Giants. Righthander Perry really likes steak, but his wife once gave him baked chicken before he went out to pitch. He won. So then it was chicken every workday. In the dugout before each game, he grabs the bat rack and gives it a shake-which puts the whammy on enemy batters. Before every inning, he runs out to the mound at full speed. Before a key pitch, he studiously turns his back to the plate and taps his right armpit...
...into the rightfield seats. So the next time I went outside with him and he hit the ball 350 ft. into the leftfield stands." Twins Manager Sam Mele says, "I think the kid could hit wearing boxing gloves," predicts that Oliva may yet become the first big-leaguer to bat .400 since Ted Williams-who hit .406 in 1941. "It is a lot of tough to hit .400," says Tony. "But everything is possible here...