Word: hit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first Cardinal out of the dugout to congratulate him was Pitcher Ken Dayley, a moment of pure poetry. The only other homer Lawless ever hit in the big leagues, some three years ago, was off Dayley. To press the point, with the bases loaded in the seventh inning, Dayley came in to save the game. This may be stretching poetry a bit far, but that is the World Series. For the way he marshals the forces of Vince Coleman, Ozzie Smith and Curt Ford, Manager Whitey Herzog is celebrated as a thinker. ("The game of baseball's been awful good...
...after Walter Mondale, with a lot of Harold Stassen and Viking Super Bowls in between, the hanky-waving citizenry has been desperate to be known as a winner and to lead the way. Behind 5-2 in the sixth game, they thought about despairing again, until old Don Baylor hit a two-run homer, and Hrbek a grand slam. No team had ever won all four home games in a World Series, but by a score of 11-5 and a grace as big as all indoors, the Twins won the right to try. Meanwhile, back in St. Louis...
...duty in the coming days and make them sorry," said Parliament Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani. At midweek the vow of vengeance was made good. Yet another Silkworm missile was launched from the Iranian-occupied Fao peninsula, about 50 miles north of Kuwait City. The missile scored a direct hit on Sea Island, Kuwait's only deep-water oil-loading facility. The strike caused an explosion that could be heard 20 miles away in Kuwait City. The loading dock's destruction could temporarily cripple the emirate's ability to pump its oil aboard the largest supertankers. No ship was docked there when...
Kuwaiti defense forces on Failaka Island, 15 miles northeast of Kuwait City, watched the Silkworm blast off from Fao and head toward the oil dock. No effort was made to shoot the missile down, as had been done with the Silkworm that hit the Sea Isle City. Late in the week, however, Kuwaiti officials announced that they were setting up U.S.-made Hawk missile batteries on Failaka, where they will be close enough to Fao to interdict the Silkworms. The Kuwaitis have had the Viet Nam-era missiles since...
When the four destroyers moved into position to launch their bombardment, two other warships were already posted at positions northeast of the platforms, prepared to stop any Iranian effort to defend them from Bandar Abbas. The initial shells hit stored fuel oil and ammunition, setting off a furious fire and a series of explosions. After 45 minutes little was left of the platforms, but the shelling continued. "We didn't spare the shells," said Weinberger. A senior naval officer was more emphatic: "We made a show of force...