Word: hit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning, after the fighting had eddied around the house for several hours, a shell hit the compound and wounded six Nationalist soldiers who had moved into the garden house...
...tough league. In Oklahoma City, Ben once got hornswoggled in a match race against an Indian quarter-horse. The Indians dug a hole in the lane Ben's horse was to run in, filled it with straw and covered it with dirt. When Ben's horse hit the hole, she went sprawling and the Indians took his money. Since then Ben has been pretty thorough about inspecting tracks before a race...
...bodies is by no means unreal . . ." But what interested gallerygoers most were Lewis' portraits of some of his literary friends, e.g., Poets T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Stephen Spender. Using the diluted cubism that gives all his work a curiously geometrical air, Lewis had hit off an easily recognizable likeness every time...
...picks up extra money by selling spot news pictures to the New York Journal-American. One day last week, he was standing outside a Manhattan parochial school on his sales route, talking to a priest, when a youngster ran up and gasped: "Father, a little boy's been hit by a truck." Grabbing his camera from his car, Robbins ran after the priest...
They found seven-year-old Michael Nordquist lying in the street, where a coal truck had hit him as he stepped off the curb. Still clutched in Michael's hand was the change that a baker had given him a few minutes earlier; he had just picked out a cake for the party to celebrate his first communion the next day. As the priest, a nurse and a passer-by knelt to comfort Michael in the few minutes left of his life, Robbins shot five pictures. Generously, he offered two of them to his old friend Bob Wendlinger...