Word: hit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alan Trammell of the Tigers had a pretty good Opening Day against the Red Sox last week. The Tiger shortstop hit an extra-inning home run to beat Boston. Big homers on Opening Day aren't uncommon, but there has been only one time in history that a team opened its season with back-to-back-to-back homers. Can you name the hitters and their team? (Two points per player and two for the team.) Eight points...
...dumbest-sounding oxymoron since jumbo shrimp. But, like television journalist, its usage has proliferated beyond the inventors' dreams. Once lovingly crafted of tempered wood, the heads of drivers are going steel. If even Nicklaus is bonging these days instead of bashing, the game has certainly changed. "I still hit the ((old)) persimmon club one or two yards longer," he estimates with charming precision, "but I hit the metal wood straighter. That's what convinced me. I feel very confident now that I'm going to drive the ball in the fairway...
...does no good to remind him that in the course of winning 20 major championships, he hit a few fairways previously. Nicklaus thinks he has found magic again. The last time was two years ago this week at the Masters in Augusta, Ga., where anyone with a wet eye could see that his mother in the gallery and his son at his side had more to do with a sixth victory surging out of him at 46 than did the oversize putter he waved jubilantly. "I wanted something with the largest possible moment of inertia and the smallest dispersion factor...
...Addams Family, sulks in the corner. The conversation fizzes, then fizzles; the guests shift uneasily. Time for a little . . . Day-o! Day-ay-ay- o! Daylight come and me wan' go home! What? Delia has risen and, to the astonishment of all, begun singing Harry Belafonte's banana-boat hit of 30 years past. Work all night on a drink of rum! Now the entire party, pulsing with the calypso beat, dances around the table like frenzied Jamaican dockworkers. Lift six-foot, seven-foot, eight-foot bunch! Monstrous arms spring out of the shrimp tureens and leech onto the faces...
...device that comes with a built-in computer and can be hooked up to a TV set. A hand-held controller allows users to interact with the images on the screen. ! Sony and Philips, which call their new system CD-Interactive, hope it will be as big a hit as the music CD player. Philips conducted the first public demonstration of CD-I last month, and industry sources say the system could be ready for delivery as early as next year...