Word: hit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eastern was hit with a strike at 12:01 a.m. Saturday by the Machinists union. About 8,500 mechanics, baggage handlers and ground crews walked out over Eastern's demand for contract concessions, escalating a 17-month union-management battle at the nation's seventh-largest airline...
...Harvard wrestling team reached for the stars and hit the dust in the Eastern Championships at Lehigh this weekend, its final wrestling competition of the season...
Konovalchik hit a star for Harvard, reaching fourth place in the tournament, one place away from qualifying for nationals...
Miraculously, the plane never hit the sea. Though both starboard engines were disabled, probably by debris, veteran pilot David Cronin, 58, skillfully reduced altitude and nudged his crippled craft along the 100-mile journey back to Honolulu International Airport. As he touched down at 2:33 a.m., one hour after the plane had taken off, everybody aboard burst into applause and then slid swiftly down the escape chutes. Said passenger Bruce Lampert: "I can tell you that was a long flight back." Afterward, a dozen people were hospitalized...
...best news of the year," raved a critic in the New York Times. "A showstopper," declared another. The reviews were not for a Broadway hit but for the hottest new product in photography: Kodak's supercrisp Ektar color + film. Not available in the U.S. for another month, the film is so much in demand that American shutterbugs and camera shops are buying rolls from dealers in Europe, where Ektar was introduced last November...