Word: hit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telescopic nights did not help much, for four bullets hit Professor Allen R. Foley's house across the river in Norwich, Vermont...
Foley had been sitting in a living room chair in front of a window, until he decided to get up and go to the kitchen. No sooner had he reached it than one shot came through the window and hit the wall behind the chair in a direct line with the spot that Foley's head had previously occupied...
Another shot hit the wall where the professor's shoulder had been. A third embedded itself in the window casing, and a fourth hit the side of the house...
...split second later he hit Sprek on the ledge and threw him 120 feet into the valley. McNear's own body cleared the rocks and hurtled another 1400 feet. He fell through space more than 10 seconds before landing...
Valpey had little to say about Stanford. "They outhit us all afternoon. It wasn't that we didn't want to hit--they just got there first." Art had no excuses or explanations. "We just took a licking...