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How could anything take a direct hit in the head and live?
It had taken a direct hit, maybe more than one.
I think he would have been home, even with a direct hit, but it was a close one.
That building took a direct hit just as I left it.
That was either a direct hit or close to it.
It appeared as if the bank had taken a direct hit during the war.
A direct hit there would have taken us clean out of action.
I don't care if the first one's a direct hit.
Yet it was not enough to save their lives after a direct hit at close range.
In just eight minutes 936 people were killed, including 209 children under the age of 15 when four schools received direct hits.
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