Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Annapolis and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, firing the first subborne Regulus air-breathing missiles from the U.S.S. Tunny, taking an advanced course at Newport, R.I.'s Naval War College. Last June he passed the personal test of the Navy's nuclear submarine boss. Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover, then hit the missile-and nuclear-training circuit from California's Lockheed plant, where the Polaris is produced, to Groton's boat yard. Says Osborn: "Driving the wedge of learning into your head is work, hard work. There's no easy...
...talk got uglier. Blinky visited Leonard in Los Angeles, accompanied by a couple of tough-looking hoodlums with police records who lingered ominously in the background. Leonard got threatening phone calls ("It'll be with a pipe wrapped in a paper sack. You'll never know what hit you"). He testified that Carbo called too. said "something to the effect that 'You're going to get hurt. We're going to make an example of you.' " After the hearing, police were assigned to guard Leonard whenever he left home...
...Pointers, who were the first to become marines upon graduation since the early 19th century. The Army gave 43 more graduates to the Air Force. The Air Force lost one man to the Marines, sent most of its new 2nd lieutenants (all qualified navigators) on to pilot training. Swapping hit the Navy hardest: 57 Annapolis graduates (including the No. 1 man) chose the Marines. 83 the Air Force, six the Army. As 10,000 Annapolis spectators laughed, the Army's Lieut. General James F. Collins swore in the ex-midshipmen, cracked nautically: "Welcome aboard...
...varsity jumped away to a 2-0 lead in the very first inning. Al Martin was hit by a pitch and went to third when an Eli infielder muffed Chet Boulris' pop-fly. Rodgers then fetched both men home with a sharp single to left...
...single, a sacrifice, and another Yale error made it 3-0 in the fourth, and an inning later came Balboni's home run. A hit batsman, a single, and an error preceeded his mighty swat down the left-field line...