Word: batting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ruth's full free swing was being copied more and more, and so was his type of bat, thinner in the handle and whippier, in principle something like a golf club. (Early in his career Ruth used a massive 52-ounce bat, but this slimmed down as Ruth himself ballooned.) Strategy and tactics changed. A strikeout heretofore had been something of a disgrace--reread "Casey at the Bat." A batter was supposed to protect the plate, get a piece of the ball, as in the cognate game of cricket. In Ruth's case, however, a strikeout was only a momentary...
...believe, Mother, That the splendor of life Is born in my prison; And I believe that My final visitor Will not be an eyeless bat...
...sticks to intelligence gathering and gives up its covert operations, both the need and the appetite for secrecy might well be curbed. This proposal cuts to the political left as well as to the right. It means that the CIA should not simply switch sides and bat the good guys (read liberal or revolutionary) for a change. We should, as a matter of principle, put an end to our deadly Tinker Toy games of setting up and knocking down other people's governments. (The Rev.) Richard John Neuhaus Church of St. John the Evangelist (Lutheran) Co-Founder, Clergy...
...address to Congress, then pursued it relentlessly in a series of consensus-building economic conferences. Last week, appearing before 800 economists, businessmen, Government officials and labor leaders at the final summit in Washington, Ford declared that "this is not the end but the beginning of a bat tle" to rescue the economy. "You have done your own work well," he added. "Now it's my turn...
...wants action. So baseball introduces the designated hitter, a bull moose who replaces the feeble pitcher at bat. The tedium of the old game is dramatically reduced. Fans stop bringing pillows to the ballpark, and more such changes are demanded immediately...