Word: hit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snorted: "We've never even discussed it, and I don't expect to." His friendship with Nixon goes back to 1951, when Florida's Senator George Smathers asked Rebozo to entertain Nixon, a fellow freshman, at Key Biscayne. Rebozo took him fishing and remembers, "We just hit it off." The friendship developed, as did Nixon's habit of flying to Florida for the sun. On election night in 1960, Rebozo was the only outsider invited to Nixon's Ambassador Hotel suite in Los Angeles to watch returns with the family. While Nixon conferred with aides...
...series of amphibious operations that sent U.S. forces island-hopping across the Central Pacific toward Japan. Robert Sherrod, the TIME and LIFE correspondent who filed the story of Tarawa in 1943 after leaping into neck-deep water and wading ashore with the fifth wave of Marines to hit the beach, has long been saddened by the realization that the island's name no longer evokes an instant, horrified response. "A whole generation," he said, "has matured without knowledge of a battle the like of which had never happened before, and in all probability will never happen again." A former...
French and German intransigence sent Europe's monetary system reeling toward the brink of crisis. On the day that Schiller, chairman of the Group of Ten, summoned the world's leading central bankers and finance ministers to an emergency meeting in Bonn, demand for gold in London hit the highest level since March. In New York, sterling hit rock bottom at $2.38. In Swiss money markets, it slipped even lower. The dollar, by comparison, weathered the crisis fairly well, reflecting general confidence that the U.S. was finally doing something convincing about its balance of payments problem...
...Vietnamese were moving through the DMZ in company-sized units. Despite 21 significant confirmed violations of the buffer zone, U.S. officers saw no pattern of abuse there and could locate no major military threat. At the same time, Saigon claimed that, despite the understanding that cities should not be hit, the Communists had shelled 98 civilian areas in the first two weeks since the halt-five times as heavy a bombardment as in the fortnight preceding it. Such statistics would clearly be useful to Thieu if he wanted further justification for boycotting the talks...
...been able to understand why we didn't seem to care very much about winning, and why everyone was laughing at all the wrong times. But it didn't really matter. The System took care of everything. The System made even James K. (for King) "Jimmy" Glassman want to hit the buzzer and get to say "Richard Nixon" on national teevee. And if any unpardonable breach occurred--for instance if someone being interviewed called Mr. Earle "Mr. Ludden" by mistake--they could erase the tape so smoothly hardly anyone would notice. Right after the show, the producer came...