Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Father's Day Committee named 79-year-old William Gasper Peter of Beech Creek, Pa. the father of the largest family of 1949: he has 18 children, 80 grandchildren. Said Peter, who is not too old to work as a log splitter: "I hit the wedge hard because that is a way of blowing off steam...
...city's staple foods, jumped six times in one day; then the fish all but vanished from the market. By night the incandescent white light of star shells blossomed periodically in the skies around Shanghai. Tracer shells splashed lines of red along the horizon. One shell hit a Standard Vacuum Oil Co. tank near the Whangpoo and 2,000 tons of gasoline went up with a whoosh, burned for 24 hours...
Donclan limited the Blue to one hit in each of the first six innings and two each in the last three, for a total of twelve. He walked but two and fanned seven. Three Yardling errors were costly, but the visitors made two themselves as each side scored only two earned runs...
...third inning the Yardlings tied it up, 2 to 2, without a hit after the Yalies had gone ahead for the second time on single markers in the first and third...
...Crimson went ahead in the bottom of the seventh, 4 to 8 Robinson singled for the third time. Akillian moved him to third on a hit-and-run single, and Ralph scored on a wild pitch...