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Word: hit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four pieces. So he left and came back with a piece of four-by-four. I assumed the same position, kneeling on the deck, and received a few blows on the shoulders and back." Law was then kicked, punched and cuffed by his guards. Altogether, he estimated, he was hit 250 times or more. "I didn't bother to count them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Heroes or Survivors? | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...conceded that an audience forced to watch a movie through the eyes of its main character begins to identify with that character, a point which for my money Bogdanovich disproves. Renata Adler wrote a depressing column suggesting that the audience, looking through the sniper's gunsight, wants him to hit his victims--just as the audience wants that car to sink into the swamp in Psycho although its disappearance serves only to protect nasty old Mrs. Bates. Nuts! An audience made complicit in wholesale slaughter by virtue of POV shots resists with all its might, particularly when they have...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Targets and Inga | 1/7/1969 | See Source »

...Spartans, throwing in platoons of tall, muscular forwards, went on a 7-2 tear to open the half and then exchanged baskets until Harvard tried to mount a counter-charge with 14 minutes left. Sophomore forward Mike Janczewski, bothered the whole week by a sore tendon in his foot, hit a jump shot and then Dover and Gustavson tipped in shots to cut the lead to nine...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Quintet, Skaters Finish Holiday Schedules | 1/6/1969 | See Source »

...Francisco got just 15 shots in the second half, a tribute to stout Harvard defense and the rebounding of Hardy and Gallagher as well as Waickowski, but hit 10 of them, an impressive 67 per cent. Harvard took 33 shots and made nine...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Quintet, Skaters Finish Holiday Schedules | 1/6/1969 | See Source »

...Harrison hoped to isolate one of the big men under the basket, but Harvard had trouble putting the play into operation and finally, Gustavson, who had just made a spectacular save to keep the ball in play threw up a 20 footer from the top of the key. It hit the rim and time ran out before the Crimson could get the ball up again...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Quintet, Skaters Finish Holiday Schedules | 1/6/1969 | See Source »

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