Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frank recalls. Frank's best pitch in those days was a sidearm fast ball, thrown with a kind of rural free delivery-sometimes the ball went all over the countryside. His first pitch caught the batter in the back, forcing in a run. His second hit the next batter, and forced in another run. "Hey Rube," enraged Fallon fans screamed...
...almost the same spot one night last week, helmeted members of the Garde Républicaine held seats for people of importance-British Ambassador Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Soviet Ambassador Sergei Vinogradov, ex-King Farouk. When they and some 8,000 others were seated, the production of ballet hit a height of splendor to satisfy a Medici...
Valuable Loss. Last September, attracted by a tax loss of $11 million, Sonnabend bought control of Botany Mills, an oldtime worsted manufacturer hard hit by the textile depression. To make use of its tax loss, Botany bought money-making Gastonia Combed Yarn Corp., Jewel Cotton Mills and Gurney Mfg. for $14 million. By writing its losses off against the mills' profits, the purchase was made largely an intracompany, bookkeeping operation, cost Botany little in cash...
...they had not hit the magnetic chimney, they would never have been caught by balloon-borne instruments...
...what happened in 1951 when the sun was active. Last summer the sun was in a quiet mood. The clouds in space had dissipated, allowing the weak particles to approach the earth. Most of them were chased away by the earth's magnetic field, but a few hit the magnetic chimney and reached a close-in altitude where the scientist's instruments could catch and count them...