"It hit the dirt, " Recker said.

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No rumble seat (yet), so strictly speaking, it is a Business Coupe, designed for a generation of men in hats and blue serge suits to load their sample cases into the giant trunk and hit the dirt roads of Depression America in search of the elusive customer with money.

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The rover hit pay dirt early, landing inside a shallow crater ringed in layered rock outcroppings.

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In 1976, Miller hit pay dirt by winning the players' free agency.

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Beyond the danger of getting hit, "particles of dirt or debris can enter the eyes, ears, and nose, causing injury or infection, " says Hammer.

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Last April Norwegian explorer DNO hit pay dirt--330 million barrels in the Tawke field.

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Mr. Kazmar had his glove on the dirt even before the ball was hit.

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He drilled the well only another 5, 000 feet and hit pay dirt.

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As you fly new ideas up the flagpole, some of them will hit paydirt and some of them will just hit dirt.

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Our nation grew rich (in myriad ways) because risk takers hit pay dirt, others saw what they did, grew envious, and attempted to do the same thing.

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Last summer her team hit pay dirt: They found a tiny alteration of just four chemical beads, or "letters, " in the 35, 000-letter-long Flap gene.

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