Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think we were just kind of playing around with the ball on the sidelines," Blain said. "A couple of passes in there, and then I sort of flicked it in the middle. Joey was right there and just hit a beautiful shot, a great shot...
...Country Club had never seen anything like it. For a week in July, more than 250,000 Iowans, including Governor Tom Vilsack, came in droves to applaud, cheer and gawk at the stars. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED called the event, the 20th Senior U.S. Open golf tournament, "the biggest thing to hit the state since Pope John Paul II's visit," which happened 20 years earlier. The mere arrival in town of Arnold Palmer, about to turn 70, made headlines in the statewide newspaper, the Des Moines Register...
BEEN THERE, DONE THAT (St. Martin's) "I had more consecutive hit records than the Beatles or Elvis Presley," crows Eddie Fisher in his new memoir, co-written with David Fisher (no relation). "I had 65,000 fan clubs and the most widely broadcast program on television and radio." Still, Fisher is most remembered as a husband--first to Debbie Reynolds, then to Elizabeth Taylor, then to Connie Stevens. When he left Reynolds for Taylor, it was a national scandal; when Liz left him for Richard Burton, it was an international ruckus. Yet Fisher, now on his fourth marriage, never...
...bottom lines it this way: "For most people, relationships are simply not time-effective," he says. "People think having relationships with the opposite sex is nice, but if it gets in the way of making $3 million, forget it. They'll go to bars for a quick hit...
...last-minute northward jog by Floyd spared Florida a direct hit, and the hurricane that finally came ashore at Cape Fear, in North Carolina, was far less powerful than the Floyd of just a day earlier. Still, the storm, skirting the coast all the way to Massachusetts, dumped punishing rains from Florida to Maine and triggered widespread flooding. It left at least 41 dead; thousands more had to be rescued from roofs and trees where they had been stranded by rising waters. But that was nothing compared with the havoc that authorities had feared. Floyd came on like a lion...