Word: hit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prague West," I find absurd Daley's charge that news coverage of the conflict was one-sided. King Richard was fortunate that the TV cameras could not see everything. One night, a cop overtook a young girl fleeing from tear gas. Grabbing her by the hair, he hit her across the face with his nightstick, ripped off her blouse, ripped off her bra. After clubbing her over the head a few more times, the cop left her-half-naked, bleeding and unconscious in the street-as he ran on into the melee. He was smiling. Daley earlier said that...
More often than not, Denny's second pitch is identical to the first. So is the third. He delights in tweaking danger by the nose just for the sheer, perverse fun of it. An opponent who hits a home run off McLain's fastball will probably get another hummer the next time he comes to bat. Denny is always anxious to prove that any hit was a fluke...
When he was not playing the organ, Denny was playing ball. By the time he was eight, he was the star pitcher for a Little League team in Markham, blazing them past kids three and four years older. He still brags about his record. "Nobody could hit me. I was too fast." No one could catch him either. "I'd throw the ball to my brother Tim, and he used to fall down," says Denny! "He was only four feet five inches tall...
...extras that Denny brings in ought to add another $100,000 to the $35,000 salary the Tigers are paying McLain this year. And next year Denny plans to hit Tiger General Manager Campbell for a $65,000 raise?to an even $100,000. Yet despite the steady influx of cash, he continues to demonstrate his need for help by spending money as if it were going out of style. Just last month Denny was sued by Diners' Club Inc. and S. S. Kresge Co. for a total of $1,120 in long-overdue bills that he had simply forgotten...
...this has helped to sell his poetry. Selected Poems 1956-1968, published months ago, has sold more than 20,000 copies. Sales for the average collection rarely hit one-tenth that figure...