Word: hit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difference in halves probably can be attributed to the intense heat in Williamsburg, which hit 91 degrees. Using only two substitutes in Wednesday's game, Harvard was undoubtedly fatigued in the second half...
...hated libraries all my life. That is, until I came to Harvard and met Lamont. We hit it off from the start and it's been a virtual love affair ever since. I have discovered a niche on the fourth floor that had my name written all over it, so to speak. Every time I go to the library to study, I always seek out the same spot...
...promised veto could give the Democrats a potent issue in the presidential election campaign because the trade gap, which hit a record $171.2 billion last year, has become the most serious threat to economic prosperity. The monthly trade deficit has declined from a peak of $17.6 billion in October, but recent figures have been going in the wrong direction. A report released last month showing that the deficit jumped from $12.4 billion in January to $13.8 billion in February sent the financial markets into a brief panic. Continued deterioration of the trade balance could lead to a further drop...
...sense, Khalil al-Wazir died for a biblical injunction: an eye for an eye. When an Israeli hit team assassinated the Palestine Liberation Organization's operations chief three weeks ago, the act was in retaliation for his role in masterminding a large number of P.L.O. terror attacks over the years. Yet al- Wazir's death was also intended to decapitate the intifadeh, the five- month- old uprising that has rocked the Israeli-occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank. As head of the P.L.O.'s "western-sector command," he was in charge of the organization's support...
James Garner is everything Sunset wants to be and isn't. He is incisive, authoritative and a pleasure to watch. He knows the key he wants to play in: ironic patience with his friends, ironic impatience with his enemies. And he knows how to hit all the notes in his chosen range cleanly, with that easy energy that bespeaks the work of an old pro untainted by cynicism or egotism...