So, it hit him hard when he realized that these villages are doomed.

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It hit him last week when he realized that he would have a baseball card, and when his cousin texted him that his name was now in the baseball encyclopedia.

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Perhaps it is this perspective that has made him a hit Down Under.

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As DeGeorge pointedly noted in letters to companies that dared to challenge him, any insurer denying a claim is taking a chance that it will get hit with a nasty tort suit by the policyholder.

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Prosecutor Nicholas Lumley QC put it to Mr Baker that he had hit Mr Coates several times before removing his clothes, dragging him into the bathroom and trying to "hide any trace" of what he had done.

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