Word: hard-hitting
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...been ten years, almost, of good hard work by a hard-hit organization. It has been ten years, almost, of good hard work. It has taken ten years...
Last week, for the first time in its 103-year history the hard-hit Boston Stock Exchange decided to advertise. Simultaneously all exchanges were encouraged by further liberalization of margin requirements by the Federal Reserve Board. Last month the Board cut margin requirements from 55% to 40%. Last week's changes were not so radical but will aid many a trader when they go into effect January 1. Broadening Regulation T. they permit withdrawals from restricted accounts under special circumstances, allow customers to make deposits which need not be absorbed into the restricted accounts, separate commodity and security accounts...
...batter, Bill Lee of the Chicago Cubs, swung sharply. The pitcher, Dizzy Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals, slapped at the hard-hit ball with his bare hand but could not stop it. While it rolled to the outfield, Stanley Hack, who had started from second base with the crack of the bat, crossed the plate with the winning...
...last week the idea had become so widespread among hard-hit farmers that God was afflicting them with the drought for a purpose that Secretary of Agriculture Wallace was moved to speak out: "Yes, the drought is serious. But there is one angle which has a touch of the grotesque. That is the attempt to persuade farmers that the Lord is punishing them for reducing acreage...
Margaret Storm Jameson belongs to a hard-hit generation (she calls it "the Class of 1914") and she comes from hard-bitten Yorkshire. The combination, as readers of her novels will recognize, is not one that makes for softness or cares about charm. Good if somewhat angrily honest, her stories are apt to be bitter to palates accustomed to a sugaring of the pill. In No Time Like the Present, half autobiography and half indictment of a civilization that returns to war like a dog to its vomit, there is less sugaring than ever, more anger than usual...