Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, with the Yanks trailing 7-1, he hit another homer with two men on, to put his team back in the game. Three innings later he homered again, to win it. After the game, Joe Dugan, an old Yankee third baseman who used to play with Ruth and Gehrig, rushed into the pandemonium in the Yankee dressing room and planted a kiss on DiMaggio's forehead. "Just had to do it," Dugan explained, "I've never seen anybody who could surpass this guy." On the third day, Joe whomped homer No. 4 to confound...
Some businessmen thought they could already see a few patches of blue through the clouds. If unemployment had risen, so had employment; in June it hit 59,619,000, the highest this year...
...thing of its kind. At another extreme, his autobiographical books (Happy Days, Newspaper Days, Heathen Days) are among the most engaging of any in U.S. writing. During the past decade his writings and utterances have tended toward peevish and irresponsible flailings of men and politics. But he has seldom hit below the belt and has never used the stab in the back. Whatever his justifications, he struck, as Critic Gerald Johnson once said, right between the eyes...
Samaritans. In Lima, Peru, Manuel Gallardo Orihuela, knocked down by a hit & run driver, shouted for help, was picked up by three men who robbed him of his clothing and money...
...Broadway's smash hit musical, starring Opera Star Ezio Pinza as a middle-aged French planter...