He hadn't done it this time and he would never again hit anyone so hard.

and he'd never known what hit him -- he'd never known that anything had hit him.

The two top talents of the time, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, have hit the ball harder and more successfully so far this early season than at any period in careers which, to be frank about it, never have quite reached expectations.

Mays and Mantle, both 10-year men at 30, have so much ability that, baseball men agree, they've never hit the heights.

In the final month of the 1927 season, he hit seventeen home runs, a closing spurt never matched.

There has never been so instantaneous a hit as that of Chas Chaplin ".

Another hit song associated with McLean ( though never recorded by him ) is " Killing Me Softly with His Song ", which was written about McLean after Lori Lieberman, also a singer / songwriter, saw him singing his composition " Empty Chairs " in concert.

Mrs. Tarleton laid her riding crop on their backs if the occasion seem warranted, though Boyd, the oldest and the runt, never got hit much.

Marlow forces the pilgrim in " pink pyjamas " to take the wheel so that he can shed his blood soaked shoes, and while flinging the pair overboard, he is hit with a rush of thoughts ; thinking he would never have a chance to hear Kurtz talk, as he is most likely dead-then submits: " Of course I was wrong.

They said that Aaron has a hitch in his swing and will never hit good pitching.

Lennon never reached the same level of success in the U. S. post-Valotte, but he hit number five in Australia with the 1989 single " Now You're In Heaven ", which also gave him his second # 1 hit on the Album Rock Tracks chart in the USA.

Bench remained productive, but he never again hit 40 home runs in a season.

Although Moon never hit Walter-Lax, he was verbally abusive.

" She further wrote that although " Islamic historians agree that the prophet Muhammad never hit a woman, it is also clear that Muslim communities face a domestic violence problem.

Smith, who had never hit a home run in his previous 3, 009 left-handed major league at-bats, pulled an inside fastball down the right-field line for a home run, ending Game 5 in a 3 – 2 Cardinals victory.

Picard never hit me!

They are also one of two teams, along with the Miami Marlins, in Major League Baseball history to never have a player hit for the cycle.

Bradshaw never did see Swann's catch or the touchdown since Coles ' hit to Bradshaw's helmet knocked him out of the game with a head injury.

She never played Desirée in the theater ; instead, she used the beautiful lyrics and melody to create a major pop hit.

He had never heard so many bells, and as he lay there listening, he thought of her scolding him for his remarks when he had looked up at the obelisk and the church at the top of the Spanish Steps.

Chinese characters can also be written in either direction as well as vertically ( top to bottom then right to left ), especially in signs ( such as plaques ), but the orientation of the individual characters is never changed.

Qualified banks borrow from each other within this band, but never above or below, because the central bank will always lend to them at the top of the band, and take deposits at the bottom of the band ; in principle, the capacity to borrow and lend at the extremes of the band are unlimited.

Potter has stated on several occasions that he never top-roped the Arch and no photos exist of Potter using a top rope setup on the Arch.

In 2010, CIA documents were released indicating that " top US officials never believed Powers ’ account of his fateful flight because it appeared to be directly contradicted by a report from the National Security Agency, the clandestine US network of codebreakers and listening posts.

Despite the thrilling win and the recognition, Bogart later commented, " The way to survive an Oscar is never to try to win another one ... too many stars ... win it and then figure they have to top themselves ... they become afraid to take chances.

The lute belly is almost never finished, but in some cases the luthier may size the top with a very thin coat of shellac or glair in order to help keep it clean.

By January 1983, Men at Work had the top album and single in both the US and the UK-a feat never achieved previously by an Australian act.

The traditional model of grading on a curve ( top student gets the best grade, worst student always fails ( even if they know all the material ), everyone else is evenly distributed in the middle ) is never accepted in OBE or standards-based education.

The term " pushdown " refers to the fact that the stack can be regarded as being " pushed down " like a tray dispenser at a cafeteria, since the operations never work on elements other than the top element.

" The prospect of starting near the top of the pyramid will attract to the hierarchy a group of brilliant class employees who would never have come there at all if they had been forced to start at the bottom ".

The blocks or balls start falling down ; but if they reach the top, new blocks stop falling, so they do not overflow — thus, the game never ends.

It was also voted as the 27th greatest song never to reach UK # 1 in another VH1 poll, and also voted as the 84th greatest song of all time by BBC Radio 2 listeners in their " Sold on Song " top 100 poll.

During the later stages there was talk within top circles that the government should create the Socialist Market Economy ; however, they never reached an agreement of how much socialism and market was to be featured.

Hugh Munro never completed his own list, missing out on Càrn an Fhidhleir and Càrn Cloich-mhuillin ( downgraded to a " top " in 1981 ).

Another MKUltra effort, Subproject 54, was the Navy's top secret " Perfect Concussion " program, which was supposed to use sub-aural frequency blasts to erase memory, however the program was never carried out.

Although eventually reaching a top circulation of 1500, The Rolling Stone failed in April 1895 since the paper never provided an adequate income.

Juveniles never engage in aggressive behaviour, but climb on top of adults, which tolerate their presence on their backs.

The non-satiation requirement means that you will never reach the " top ", or a " bliss point ", a consumption bundle that is preferred to all others

The Navy never told Parker exactly what the team did, since it would have taken too long to get top secret clearance.

Many of Britain's top actors, including John Gielgud, Robert Morley and Joyce Grenfell, paid tribute at a memorial service, where 90-year-old Sybil Thorndike praised her friend's enormous talent and recalled that Rutherford had " never said anything horrid about anyone ".

Astaire remained a male fashion icon even into his later years, eschewing his trademark top hat, white tie and tails ( for which he never really cared ) in favor of a breezy casual style of tailored sports jackets, colored shirts, cravats and slacks — the latter usually held up by the idiosyncratic use of an old tie in place of a belt.

Of their four top draft picks from 1987 to 1990, the Islanders lost one to a freak knee injury and two others never panned out.