Word: hit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tail section fluttered down, turning over & over, scattering debris and bodies, and smashed to rest, belly-up, on the riverbank. The forward half of the plane seemed to linger in the air. Then it too plunged down, hit the river in a burst of spray, and was gone...
Then Hugo Sims cocked a campaigner's ear for his own education. Stout, grey Mayor Angelo Stoudermire, a clerk in Rickenbacker's store, talked about what Sims already knew-how the failure of the local cotton crop had hit hard. "When the small farmers get hit," said Angelo, "it hurts the stores most. The big farmers don't buy any more in hard times than in good." Jesse Huggins, a spare man in old Army clothes, who had been picking pecans until Sims drove up, didn't think much of the Fair Deal. "We call...
...Newfoundlander involved in a minor traffic accident at a U.S. base was ordered by an MP to report to the gatehouse. When he refused, the MP fired two warning shots; one ricocheted and hit the man in the leg. The Newfoundlander spent 23 days in the base hospital and was billed $49.50 for services; to date, he has collected no damages...
...Newfoundland motorists whose cars had been hit by U.S. military vehicles sued in their own courts and won damages. They could not collect...
...Broadway last week, theatergoers were still flocking to Kiss Me, Kate, the musicomedy hit based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. In the hinterland, to woo theatergoers to her touring production of The Taming of the Shrew, Margaret Webster was billing the old comedy with a new subtitle: "The Original Kiss Me, Kate...