Word: hit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...27th District. Though registered Democrats enjoy a slight edge over Republicans, voters there customarily prefer conservatives of either party. Van de Kamp, 33, a former Justice Department lawyer whose family founded bakeries and restaurants throughout the state, proved to be almost as rightward-thinking as Goldwater. Both candidates hit hard at campus turmoil and stressed law and order. The result was a contest devoid of issues. With both men rigorously ruling out smear tactics, the question became more one of name than of name-calling. Yet while Barry Jr. bragged unabashedly of being the "elder son of the Senator from...
Dorwart obviously was upset by the call as he then gave up a hit and walked three batters for a total of five runs. Sophomore Nickens began his relief job by walking in a run, but after that he settled down to his superb two-hit performance...
Down 7-0 after two innings, Harvard's sophomore-studied line-up produced seven runs, while left-hander J. C. Nickens came on the relief to hurl a two-hit shut out. Then with out in the ninth, the bubble burst...
Brown's first six runs, in the first inning, followed on a questionable umpiring call. With two on and one man out in the first, a Bruin hit a double-play grounder to shortstop Bill Kelly, who fielded the ball and fired to junior Bill cherry at second...
Very few other topics have held the floor against University events that night. Styron's Nat Turner is one of those rare books which delighted most of the reading public and hit one part of the public--black militants--in a spot so sore that they responded in print. Possibly only individual memoirs have provoked similar reactions, and those from a much smaller group of people. "No novel," Styron says with that heavy calm that makes irony sound imperial instead of petty, "has ever been accorded the extraordinary accolade of having a whole book written about it as soon...