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Word: hit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the plane hit the embankment at 8:30 (GMT), the tail section embedded in the ground and the fuselage broke away and was scattered over nearby fields, said Inspector Neville Cotterill of the police in the city of Leicester...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: British Jet Crashes En Route to Ireland | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...said there were "considerable injuries," but he said no cars were known to have been hit as the plane thundered alongside the M1, England's main north-south highway. The highway remained partly open to traffic, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: British Jet Crashes En Route to Ireland | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE. Kathy Bates returns to the role she winsomely originated in Terrence McNally's off Broadway hit about love between two lonely losers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jan. 9, 1989 | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...telephone, but not Kevin Mitnick -- or at least not without being under a guard's eye. And then he is permitted to call only his wife, mother and lawyer. The reason is that putting a phone in Mitnick's hands is like giving a gun to a hit man. The 25-year-old sometime college student is accused by federal officials of using the phone system to become one of the most formidable computer break-in artists of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Drop The Phone | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...there: he must spend more time acting than Michael Caine put together. This fall, five Hackman films were released. "I'll take what's offered me," he says, "as long as it falls into certain parameters. I'm not going for the home run every time." Sometimes Hackman has hit bunt singles in a movie resume as long as a Chicago Cubs season. Yet he projects such solid authority that not even junk can embarrass him. "I actually think I've been lucky," says the star who can't say no. "Working constantly not only keeps me sharp, but relieves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hackman: A Capper for a Craftsman | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

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