Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week eight Sabres from a South Korean base were jumped by 15 or 16 MIGs over open water some 40 or 50 miles southwest of Antung. The Red pilots failed to hit any Sabre, but the Americans shot up two of the enemy jets so badly that the pilots bailed out, and two other MIGs were seen tumbling toward the sea, trailing smoke. Score: two kills, two probables...
...season's first smash hit, The Boy Friend, saw its author locked out of rehearsals with a detective guarding the door. Silk Stockings was more spotlighted during its harassed tryout than are most hits at the peak of their run. Such so-so plays as Anastasia and Inherit the Wind packed enough second-act wallop to have the whole town talking. House of Flowers featured gorgeous rival bordellos, Lunatics and Lovers a bubble bath onstage...
...that he was just too good to pitch batting practice. Smokey, who had handled Newcombe before, in Nashua, N.H., in Class "B" ball, had quietly told him to clean out his locker and go away. Now, threatened with a fine and properly penitent, Big Don whizzed through a one-hit game. He blew down the absolute minimum of 27 batters as the Dodgers...
...past 15 years, Mrs. A. had been sitting in a hard wooden chair at the end of the hospital corridor. With her dress forlornly covering her hear, she had never spoken, rarely moved except when forced. One of the doctors compared Mrs. A. to a near-sighted woman hit by a car on a busy street: "She is now standing on the psychotic side," he said, "and is afraid to cross to the normal side. Everything looks out of proportion--the street wider, the cars bigger, the danger greater. So she turns her back to the world and closes...
Chauncey stole second, and scored on George MacDonald's bullet to center. Rossano doubled him to third, and Dick Hoffman walked to load the bases. Then John Simourian came through with a drive to right to score MacDonald, keeping the bases filled. Bill Cleary, up for the second time, hit a hard grounder to third, to force Hoffman and end the inning...