Word: hit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unidentified young man received 48 stitches in his head after a man hit him with a bottle last Friday night in a fight at The Sports Bar, the establishment's manager said...
According to David Ferguson, the manager of the bar, the fight began when David Reynolds, 35, of New Bedford, was verbally abusive to a young woman. When one of her companions attempted to defend her, Reynolds hit him with a bottle...
After the young man was hit, there were a few moments of confusion, while other patrons pulled Reynolds away, and "beat him up pretty good," said Ferguson, but "it was over before it began...
...Darnyi's record of 4:15.42. Oddly, each man suffers from a sensory disability. Wharton is partially deaf and wears a hearing aid when on dry land. Darnyi has had only partial sight in his left eye since 1983. "We were fooling around in the snow when a snowball hit me in the eye," explains the swimmer. "It caused a detached retina." Despite four eye operations, and against the advice of his doctors, Darnyi , returned to competition in 1984. Between his typical eleven-mile-a-day training sessions, Darnyi, a science-fiction fan, builds model spaceships and muses...
...when the gold medal was his but the record wasn't. "The event that means the most to me is the long jump," says Lewis. "I was never really aiming for the record. That was just a media thing. I'm still aiming to improve. I would like to hit 29 ft. and go from there." From there, it is still precisely 2 1/2 in. farther...