Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gets within range. The effect on its orbit will be greatest whenever Lunik III comes close to the moon, but this will not happen often. Eventually, Lunik may be attracted down to the moon's surface, or perhaps the moon will deflect it into a course that will hit the earth's atmosphere and bring its historic career to a fiery...
...their dedicated isolation, Shaker communities hit on a host of new forms and techniques that have become commonplace. Before the Civil War, Shakers invented a flat broom, a wheel-driven washing machine, a circular saw, a tilt-back chair (on ball-and-sockets) and, a century before its use in medicine, electric shock therapy, using a primitive static-electricity generator...
...balls that would have been easy outs in other parks. On occasion, outfielders staggered about mazily as flies descended out of the sun. Batters strained to pick out the ball from the backdrop of shirtsleeved bleacherites in centerfield. "I don't know how these fellows can even hit the ball," confessed Umpire Ed Hurley. "The ball just seems to explode in your face...
...seventh, allowing only one run. He saved the third, 3-1, by getting Outfielder Al Smith to bounce into a double play with the bases loaded in the eighth, fanning three men in the ninth. In the fourth game, he set down the White Sox without a hit in the eighth and ninth, was credited with the 5-4 win. By the sixth game Lawrence Sherry was so eager to pitch that he swaggered in from the bullpen in the fourth inning with unconcealed, cocky cheer. He shut out the White Sox the rest...
Ford showed off its new Edsel, Mercury and Lincoln lines. The Edsel has been completely redesigned for 1960, has lost the oval hole in the grille. Chrysler's Plymouth hit the showrooms with a new unitized-frame construction for its 24 models, pronounced tail fins, completely new body styling. Among the year's most unusual new models was Willys Motors' new four-cylinder Jeep Surrey, which has a brightly painted body, seats in candy-striped colors that match a vinyl-covered fringed top. The Surrey, priced at $1,650, is aimed chiefly at resort and vacation centers...