Word: hit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These students had all contracted bacterial meningitis, a disease that in recent years has increasingly hit college campuses, drawing the media's eye and prompting thousands of students to pay for costly vaccinations...
...Indeed, the voice of lead singer (and guitarist) Dean Wareham, so soothing and haunting on recordings, was reduced to a nasally twang straining to hit the top notes. While this may have been part of the band's charm, I found it difficult to listen to and rather annoying. The sedentary nature of the crowd was also unnerving. While Luna is not a band to which one dances madly, sitting down and occasional nodding meant the excitement inherent in concerts was absent...
...Commons needed, and the cherry red monitors lined up in the Science Center add a touch of brightness to that dreary trek to our Science B core. Annoying commercials aside (how dare they use Gandhi and Einstein for advertising, let alone Lucille Ball), the computers themselves seemed like a hit...
...Peter's. It suffered a disappointing 67-65 loss to St. Peter's after the Peacocks' Kalief Allen hit a 17-foot jumper with 5.8 seconds left on the clock...
...music phenomenon when two girls and two boys took to the stage as the opening act at a recent pop extravaganza. Critics will argue that they've got it that vaguely-defined, over-emphasized star quality which makes success inevitable. But I'm pretty sure that they'll launch hit after hit because they've got the five ingredients to be a pop culture phenomenon...