Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...canvas made to look like rock, and they hang from the ceiling. There are two men crouched behind the pillars, which are fake, so when he pushes his hands out, the two men do something and the pillars fall together. Then all these fake rocks fall, and I get hit by a rock and fall dead. But then, the frightening thing is, one of the two real pillars on the side comes crashing down across the front of the stage. It's made of solid wood, and it's about 30 or 40 feet high, so it's a real...
Tung's loss was a heartbreaker: "The turning point came in the third game," Tung said. "We were tied 14 all, and I lost it on a dribbler that hit a nick in the wall. I played well, I think, but I still have to work on my court attitude, especially my concentration...
...Hardest hit is the construction industry, which has come to an almost total halt. Dozens of huge apartment complexes in Tehran stand unfinished. One example of the pervasive industrial malaise is the Melli shoe factory, which used to export 11 million pairs of shoes a year to the Soviet bloc. Production at the Melli plant, now run by production at the Melli plant, now run by a workers' council, is down to 2 million pairs a year, scarcely enough for domestic consumption. The council claims that the problem is lack of spare parts and materials; the real problem...
...faced a shortage of equipment and a cutback in supplies, while the Pasdaran had a seemingly limitless budget. Army leaders did not hide their satisfaction when the Pasdaran, basically an urban force, fared badly in mountain warfare against the Kurds. The army, by contrast, refused to be drawn into hit-and-run encounters with the insurgents...
...whites. On several occasions white police harassed marchers at newly legal Patriotic Front rallies and, in one case, fired tear gas on a crowd carrying flowers to the airport welcome. More ominously and mysteriously, two nephews of Patriotic Front Co-Leader Robert Mugabe were wounded in a hit-and-run shooting attack against his sister's house in Salisbury. From Mozambique, Mugabe reacted with deadpan menace: "Such assailants must remember that whatever they do, we can do better...