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.