Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...period, they do not show that the hard core of joblessness was affected. To the contrary, long-term unemployment, a figure reflecting those who have been without work for more than 15 weeks, increased by 80,000 to 1,544,000. The durable goods industries--which had been hardest hit by last year's recession--showed little more than the already predicted recovery rate, about one per cent. In fact, many of the new jobs in that field came from the steel industry, where pre-strike panic has produced an unnatural, impermanent job rise...
Smoke-ball Kirby's mysterious pitch had little effect on Harvard in the early stages, as Mouse Kasarjian hit a triple, and Leamy and Harrington each got a single, and Martin, Davis, and Boulris made two singles apiece, all in the first five innings. Boulris came through with another single in the ninth which drove in one of the two runs, the other of which came from relief pitcher Jones' inaccurate throwing...
...Quantico, Wadsworth hurled six innings and gave up one hit, and although he walked five, only one man reached second. Since vacation, Wadsworth has worked in two intra-squad games and has given every indication that he has mastered his control problems...
...have long-ball hitters, and it will have to depend on several players who have a high average because of singles. Bob Forbush, the left fielder, had a batting average in the 300's last year. Bill Rodgers, at shortstop, and Dick Shima, the centerfielder, are also expected to hit well...
...spent three days with a paratroop battalion in Normandy a few weeks after they had been dropped, reconstructing the action one day for a case study along the lines of Max Weber's "ideal type" theory. Then followed ten days with a ranger battalion that had hit the Normandy beaches, including the wounded. He helped write a series of 16 monographs on landings, concentrating his efforts on the story of Omaha Beach. After the war, series on the workings of the engineers, the medics, the supply corps, and the general staff were prepared, modeled after the original case studies...