Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hulking teen-ager stood by the shotput ring in his track suit, the muscles in his 17½-in. neck bulging, his 50-in. chest heaving in easy rhythm. Dallas Crutcher Long III spoke almost casually of distances never before achieved with the 16-lb. shot. "I should hit at least 66 feet by the end of the year." he said...
...Boston fans were outraged and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People charged discrimination when the Red Sox, only major-league team that has never used Negro players, farmed out Shortstop Elijah Jerry ("Pumpsie") Green, who hit a respectable .327 in spring training but faded sadly toward season's opening. This week the Sox, who have never regularly employed a Negro in any capacity at Boston's Fenway Park, will plead to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination that Green needs more seasoning in the minors. From the sidelines came an unsolicited comment from ex-Dodger Jackie...
...year, taking the exams for practice as a junior, Bill missed nothing in the two aptitude tests, in the achievement tests did perfectly in math, scored 795 in physics and slipped to a merely brilliant 742 in English. (There are no records to show whether Bill's scores hit an alltime high...
Last week Dear Liar wound up a highly successful "dry run" of 43 performances, hitting all the stops from Arizona to Florida. Next October, Cornell and Aherne will launch an even more ambitious tour stretching from Boston to Los Angeles. Finally, at year's end, they will arrive on Broadway for four weeks, then hit the road again. Bookings to date: solid through...
Whether there is poetry or not, there is some harsh truth in the 1930 song hit You're Driving Me Crazy. Long experience with patients at Maryland's Chestnut Lodge, a private hospital for the mentally ill, has convinced Psychiatrist Harold F. Searles that "the individual becomes schizophrenic partly by reason of a long-continued . . . unconscious effort on the part of some person or persons . . . to drive him crazy." It would be inane to suggest that this is the only cause of the varied and complex conditions lumped together as schizophrenia, Dr. Searles admits in the British Journal...