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Word: hit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next door, at Briggs Cage, I'm told a college basketball player kicked a chair into the stands and hit a spectator...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: College `Madness' Isn't Just in March | 3/21/1989 | See Source »

Michael Utke was on the other team. Michael Utke liked to hit. For the first time, I knew the feeling of being smashed against a fence...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: No-Hockey Weekend | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...began nine months ago, when RCA Records executive Michael Omansky approached Phone Programs about publicizing D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, a new rap duo. AT&T provided the necessary 900 area-code number. The result was an immediate hit. Spurred on by a TV ad campaign, some 2.5 million rapsters have rung up Jazzy Jeff and friend since the debut of their two- minute talkfest last June. The cost: $2 for the first minute, 45 cents a minute thereafter. Other hot lines soon followed. Now word of Phone Programs' success has got around. "People from every walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROMOTIONS: Rockin', Rollin' And Dialin' | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...established software programs is a complicated and time-consuming business. The delays are beginning to irk mainframe- and personal-computer makers, whose powerful new machines cannot be fully used without up-to-date software. Among the more worrisome recent delays: Ashton-Tate's new version of a financial program hit stores three months behind schedule. And Lotus is almost a year late with its long-promised improved 1-2-3 financial spreadsheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOFTWARE: A $175 Million Bottleneck | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

Incidentally, Pete Gray lasted just the solitary year because he hit but .218 one-handed. As a pitcher, Abbott is excused from batting chores by the American League's designated-hitter rule, though it may be the other pitchers who should celebrate. At Michigan he came to bat a total of three times. After grounding out to third, he singled in the infield and then cracked a clean hit to right. Two for three. That's .667 lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dreaming The Big Dreams | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

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