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Word: hit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freshman Cody Weston started for the Crimson and yielded a pair of runs in the second inning on two singles, a hit batsman and a pair of sacrifices...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Batsmen Sweep Red; Swept by Tigers | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...near Maui's Kahului Airport, Frank Rizzo was returning from lunch when he noticed Flight 243 making a sharp descent toward the runway. "It looked like a cargo plane with the big cargo door open, and it went into a kind of nose dive," he said. "The nose wheel hit first, and then the main wheels hit, and the entire plane settled and just sort of buckled." Even before the airport rescue vehicles arrived, two nurses clambered aboard to help injured and bleeding passengers still strapped to their seats. Many of the survivors rushed to congratulate Pilot Robert Schornstheimer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Plane Was Disintegrating | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...became more expensive, he began forging checks and filching money from the wallets of his divorced parents. In eleventh grade, he flunked all his classes but still continued his trips to Venice. "It was scary all the time now," Eric recalls. "I would sit in the van needing a hit, but couldn't stop looking out the window for the police or a shadow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kids Who Sell Crack | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

After digesting the first-round results, Chirac threw himself into a frenetic three-stop-a-day campaign across France. In six days, the Premier and his entourage were planning to hit 18 cities, eleven more than he had intended to blitz before the first-round tallies appeared. Somehow the hyperkinetic candidate was also managing to run the government and deal with the crisis in New Caledonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Down to a Fighting Finish | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...officials cracked down on the two major strikes, other work stoppages were reported in Poland. The strikes and stoppages represent the worst wave of labor unrest to hit Poland since the military crackdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polish Police Break Up Steel Mill Strike | 5/6/1988 | See Source »

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