Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried he: "Moscow and every other center in Russia we must hit within one week after the war starts and it can be done only by land-based planes such as we now have. We will not necessarily have to send our land army over there. In the next war, as in the last war, let us equip soldiers from other nations and let them send their boys into the holocausts instead of sending our own boys...
...main shock of the quake, the most violent and widespread ever to hit the Pacific Northwest, lasted for 40 seconds. When it ended, every activity of the region had been wrenched askew. Hardly an automobile, truck or bus moved; the downtown streets of Seattle, Olympia, Tacoma and other cities were jammed with motionless cars and tens of thousands of people, who had spilled out of doorways, milled between the cars, gazing fearfully upward. Some of the frantic thought of an atom bomb...
...infield quarter to Tim Wise, Win Carduff, Hank Young, and Bill Hickey (reading from first to third) has amply satisfied Coach Samborski's desire for four men who can hit, field, and throw, and he will stick with this group until proven wrong...
...latter, probably the most difficult in the department, is practically indispensible for the honors candidates. If you do well in it you can hit the theory part of the generals like a ton of bricks; if you don't get the hang of it, you may very well have trouble all the way along...
...second question, he got 18 out of 20. "To my mind," the grader commented, "excellent!! If you had just dealt with another point or two you would have hit the jackpot...