Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stan Musial's seventh-inning double could not keep the St. Louis Cardinals from losing to the Milwaukee Braves 8-0, but it was Stan the Man's 1,072nd extra-base hit, an achievement that gives him the National League record, one ahead of the Giants...
...concentrated sulphuric acid hit Riesel right across the eyes, but the fallout from the wide-mouthed bottle sent corrosive little splashes into Telvi's own face. With Miranti's help, the thug rushed for hiding to his girl friend's Manhattan apartment. There Telvi was visited by Joe Carlino, 43, a stocky ex-convict with manicured fingernails. It was Carlino. acting for an "undisclosed principal," who had made the "contract" for Telvi's job, supplied him with the acid, and collected...
When Congress began battling over an election-year farm bill seven months ago, the situation of the U.S. farmer was one of uncertainty. Prices of most farm commodities had hit bottom, the parity ratio had fallen to 80%. Traders, realizing that the largest U.S. farm surplus in history was jamming storage bins, sold short or shied away from the exchanges, and futures prices were shaky. But now the attitude of the farmer has changed from uncertainty to the beginnings of cautious optimism...
PROCTER & GAMBLE is moving into completely new lines with take-over of Duncan Hines enterprises, which inspects, approves restaurants and lodgings, and issues guidebooks and credit cards. P. & G., whose sales hit the billion-dollar mark in the fiscal year ended June 30, also bought the Hines line of prepared cake and bake mixes from Nebraska Consolidated Mills...
Since The Flying Saucer includes no fewer than 16 "quotations" from other records, music publishers and record companies at first claimed infringement of their copyrights, and threatened lawsuits. But settlements were quickly reached with most of the publishers, particularly when it appeared that the record was becoming a hit; being quoted on The Flying Saucer actually improved sales of rock-'n'-roll tunes. By now, record companies whose disks are not represented on The Flying Saucer are downright hurt. "It's the greatest sampler of all," wailed one publisher. "If you're not on Saucer...