Word: batting
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...subsequently “[dropped] in the middle of Harvard”—which I suppose means The Pit, or the circle of tourists in front of the John Harvard statue—to fend for yourself.You will have nothing at your disposal. No cell phone, no bat, no glove, no pen, no paper, no World Series ring. But you will find a list of Harvard-centric challenges which I have devised that you must complete.Successfully execute the items, one by one, and you will prove your point to the entire world: you can, indeed, survive Harvard...
...caretakers in the cells matched our living conditions. Drunken police guards would arrive for their shift and immediately announce their intentions to beat us, daring prisoners to misbehave. Using a baton bat, they would strike suspected miscreants on the soles of their feet, behind their elbows and knees and then chain them—not sitting, not standing—against iron bars so that their battered limbs could not relax through the night. This is one form of violence...
Michael Scanlon, who is Abramoff's former partner and has pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a Congressman, in 2001 told the New Times of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., that Abramoff had "a relationship" with the President. "He doesn't have a bat phone or anything, but if he wanted an appointment, he would have one," Scanlon said. Nonsense, say others. A former White House official familiar with some Abramoff requests to the White House said Abramoff had some meetings with Administration officials in 2001 and 2002, but he was later frozen out because aides became suspicious of his funding sources...
CLINTON He drove like a bat out of hell...
...Nichols: A yellow wiffle ball bat...