Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next week there will be considerable excitement at Gitmo, when 1,800 Marines from Camp Lejeune, N.C., hit the beach by helicopter and boat. For four weeks they will live in barracks and tents, simulating siege conditions. When the maneuvers end, the most visible light will again be the one that burns over the tennis court, and Gitmo will return to its tropical ways...
...baseball, the Pirates proved as irrepressible on the field as in the locker room. They swept Cincinnati out of the playoff with the same gusto, twice fighting through extra innings to beat the Reds. In the final game the Pirates crushed Cincinnati 7-1 under a barrage of hitting and Bert Blylevin's seamless pitching. It took four Reds pitchers to withstand the first four innings, as First Baseman Willie Stargell and Third Baseman Bill Madlock hit home runs and Stargell added a two-run double to settle matters. Stargell, at the vintage age of 38, hit .455 with...
...metal by buying and selling so-called futures contracts on commodities markets, trading in the actual gold itself is much more limited, and a mere handful of big investors can and do bring about significant changes in price. In just four weeks, gold leaped from $330 per oz. to hit $447, only to lose half that impressive gain by the end of last week. Anyone who plunged in for a quick killing at the wrong moment got badly hurt. Small investors in gold also must pay a sales commission of 6% to 10% when buying the metal from banks, brokers...
...runners hit the sidewalks in the last mile, the Dartmouth group pushed its way past Voit and Jacobson and began to work on Amble. Less than 20 seconds separated the eight runners as they headed up the final hill, and Harvard needed only to pick up one place to repeat Saturday's one-point victory over Brown. However, the strong Dartmouth squad made its move as three runners caught Amble up the hill, while two others held off closing challenges by Voit and Anita Diaz to secure...
...relay hit the Oriole baserunner, and the eighth Bird run crossed the plate as the ball bounded away...