Word: hit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then there was the case of Crimson middle-guard Tom McConnell. Because of a typo, McConnell was listed on the Holy Cross press notes at 2345 pounds. Thus, when McConnell made a tackle late in the first half, the WCHC guy said, "...and that hit is made by 2345-pound Tom McConnell. Man, that lineman out there is big. He must really have been hitting the weights this summer--imagine that, Harvard has a defensive lineman who actually weighs more than one ton. What do you think?" he said, turning to his color...
...There won't be much organized warfare until there is about six inches of snow," said Oliver C. Chin '91. "However, I might hit someone in the back or something," he added...
After the next play--a run up the middle--was negated by a penalty, the Cross elected to try a halfback option pass. Lockbaum, the Cross' Heisman Trophy candidate, raced right with a Wiley pitch and then hit Crusader tight end Randy Pedro in the endzone...
...market beating. Only two days before Black Monday, the government had successfully completed the $2.6 billion sale of state-owned Compagnie Financiere de Suez, a financial combine. Last week Suez's debut on the battered Paris Bourse was suddenly postponed. Reason: in the continuing stock slump, shareholders would be hit by immediate losses. To cushion the blow, the 1.6 million small investors who bought Suez shares may eventually be allowed to pay in installments...
Wolfe's main conceit is that the upper classes are especially vulnerable to prejudicial treatment if they lose their insulation. Sherman McCoy of Park Avenue and Southampton, the leading bond salesman at Pierce & Pierce, learns this harsh lesson when he is arrested for hit-and-run driving and plummets from a "Master of the Universe" to "the Great White Defendant," the dream of every ambitious $36,000-a-year assistant district attorney...