Word: hit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stachtiaris] was losing, wrestling really scrappy, but then he hit that throw and got the guy on his back," Scott Beck said. "It was awesome. He got me psyched for my match and it pumped everybody...
...Elis crawled ahead at the free-throw line. Spolyar made one of two shots to tie the score, 59-59, with seven minutes left in the game. A minute later, she was fouled again and hit both shots to give Yale a 61-59 lead, which the Elis would never relinquish...
Several news organizations have responded to public criticism by adopting - new codes of behavior. WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, for example, forbids its reporters to ask victims' relatives how they feel. When the family of a hit- and-run victim asked television reporters to stay away from the funeral last month, WCCO agreed, even though its competitors did not. Rosemary McManus, assistant editor at Long Island's Newsday in New York, says she never sends a reporter to the home of a victim until she is sure the family is aware of the death, and always instructs her reporters to honor...
...four years since crack hit U.S. streets like hard rain, hospitals have experienced an epidemic of sick, undersized newborns. Crack affects the fetus by constricting the baby's blood vessels and restricting passage of nutrients and oxygen. Even one "hit" can cause fetal damage. At Oakland's Highland General Hospital, doctors say about 18% of some 2,400 births in 1988 were crack-afflicted babies...
...started playing when I was eight," Bernheimer says. "I used to go down to the University Club of Boston and watch him play. There really wasn't anyone to play against, so I just hit by myself in the dungeon courts while he played his match...