Word: hit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your best EF Hutton after this writer said last spring that the Yankees would face the Mets in the 1988 World Series, Wade Boggs would hit .400 and Eric Davis would smack 50 homers...
...close out the half, Kosh passed to Wambach who scorched a corner jumper. Seconds later, Wambach returned the favor as she slid the ball to Kosh, who hit her jumper. The Crimson led, 39-27, at the half...
Despite its perfect record, the Crimson has yet to hit its stride...
...tangled American psyche. Thousands of miles from the U.S. mainland, the nation's optimism and self-image were bogging down. By January 1968, nearly 16,000 Americans had died in Viet Nam; more than 100,000 had been wounded. The number of U.S. troops in that remote, frustrating country hit 500,000 in February. At home, the strain of the war effort was rubbing harder against the certainties of Pentagon planners, as Americans watched nightly televised images of young men engaged in search-and-destroy missions with a stubbornly invisible enemy. Nonetheless, official American confidence was largely unshaken. The Communist...
...dawn Viet Nam time on Jan. 30, 1968, fireworks sputtered in celebration of the lunar new year. Amid the cacophony, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked Da Nang, South Viet Nam's second-largest city, and seven other major towns, breaking the Tet truce. Within 24 hours they hit 36 of 44 provincial capitals and overran almost all of the former colonial capital of Hue. Communist shock troops penetrated the heart of Saigon to attack the U.S. embassy and presidential palace. They drove General William Westmoreland into a windowless command bunker. "What the hell is going on?" Walter Cronkite...