Word: hard-hitting
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...learn a lesson easily, Rose took a dive after a hard-hit ball in the July 5 game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The National League's No. 1 vote getter in All-Star balloting, Rose sat out the classic with a broken thumb, spent 23 days on the inactive roster. Now that he has recovered, the Cincinnati management can only pray and do what it can to keep its zealous star whole-such as emphatically denying him permission to play in an amateur football league this fall...
...bombers and almost none of its heavy guns. Russia, moreover, has long since stopped its emergency postwar airlift of weapons to Cairo. The Syrians, whom Moscow distrusts, have received even fewer offensive arms. Jordan has so far been unable to beg or borrow a single weapon for its hard-hit army, and its air force, destroyed during the war, is still without a single plane...
...chains that reached clear around corners. They went first for the imported Scotch (Chivas Regal and Johnny Walker Red Label were the preferred brands), then for the bourbons and gins, next for vodka and champagne and-when everything else ran out-for cheap muscatels and cordials. TV stores were hard-hit. "I can get $500 for this color set," exulted one looter. "It's got a $1,000 price...
...Hard-hit by mounting battle losses and a dwindling supply of young men to conscript, the Viet Cong are finding it difficult to keep their ranks well filled. As a result, they are turning more and more to women to help the war effort. Backing up Victor Charlie-the G.I.s' name for the Viet Cong-are the female Victoria Charlenes, some of whom actually fight. The V.C.'s attractive, much-advertised heroine, Ta Thi Kieu, packs four rifles at a time and boasts that she has participated in 33 battles. The vast majority of the Victoria Charlenes perform...
...spectacular start when it was installed as a last-minute solution after the lack of direct sun light killed the natural grass in Houston's Astrodome. Astro ballplayers still complain that the synthetic AstroTurf, a bladed carpet of green nylon backed by vinyl, makes hard-hit grounders skid rather than bounce, and that their spikes do not dig in firmly. On the other hand, the Houston University football team, which plays its home games in the Astrodome, found the going great, and it was no hindrance to making Houston's pass-catching split end and place kicker...