Word: hit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their demands were varied: the release of Bhutto, improvements in education, better living conditions, press freedom, an end to emergency laws and to Ayub's presidential system, which is based on a narrow electoral college of 120,000 privileged people. Demonstrations, some peaceful, some unruly, hit at least three dozen towns and cities in both West and East Pakistan...
...equally dreadful fate would befall Apollo if it hit the atmosphere at too shallow an angle. Like a flat stone skipping on water, it would bounce off the atmosphere and sail into a large elliptical orbit around the earth. Having shed Apollo's service module before reentry, the astronauts would have insufficient oxygen and electrical power to survive the several hours it might take to return to the atmosphere and land. In Phillips' laconic words, "It's a crew-loss kind of situation...
...when President Kennedy proclaimed a national goal of landing men on the moon before the end of the decade, the Soviets had already used huge rockets to blast far ahead of the U.S. In September 1959, only two years after they successfully orbited Sputnik 1, the Soviets hit the moon with Luna 2. That was 21 years before the U.S. matched the feat with Ranger 4. One month after Luna 2's flight, Luna 3 passed around the moon to shoot the first pictures of the hidden lunar backside. Not until more than six years later did Lunar Orbiter...
About four minutes later he lifted a rebound over the sprawled-out North-eastern goalie for his second score. DeMichele hit on a hard 40-foot slap shot from the left point with only 47 seconds left to play to finish Harvard's first period scoring...
Both teams began to tire, and the third period degenerated into sloppier hockey and a near slug-fest. Poile and Knight hit for Northeastern's final goals, and Owen, McManama, and Gurry tallied to put the game on ice for the Crimson...