Word: hit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into taking a stiffer law-and-order stance? Or was he striking back at those party members who urged that he be retired by the next Administration? The FBI insists that the delay was caused by the complexity of the fact-finding job. Whatever Hoover's aim, he hit two targets. The gun, said the report, was used in 63% of all murders, 21% of the aggravated assaults and 63% of the armed robberies. Moreover, as crime rose, the rate of cases solved dropped by 8%. Last year, said the FBI, only one in five crimes was solved...
...midweek, Saigon was hit, suffering its first rocket attack since June 21. The rockets whooshed in during the early morning hours, and 19 of the 122-mm. projectiles hit in two salvos. Seventeen Vietnamese civilians and a Japanese correspondent were killed. The National Assembly building took two hits, but damage was so slight that the deputies met as usual...
...chasing tax dodgers for the Internal Revenue Service, Ben Larosa always enjoyed good health. After he retired in 1965, he shifted to teaching, and the ghetto schools of San Francisco, he found, were just too rough. Larosa's students broke into fistfights almost daily, hurled paper clips, and hit him on the head with chalk and textbooks. Soon he had a bleeding ulcer and, on his doctor's advice, quit teaching. Last month, in a landmark ruling affecting a teacher, a California Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board decided that Larosa had "sustained injury arising...
...Father, the Bigot. Despite such evidence, the discovery that their own children are smoking marijuana still leaves most parents incredulous. "Pot is like syph," says a senior at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill. "Parents can't conceive of it until it hits them in the face." When it does hit them, they scarcely know what to do. For, unlike sex and alcohol, drugs played no part in their own rites of passage. Wails one anguished Manhattan mother: "None of us knows anything about it. It's so new." One Detroit moth er turned her daughter...
...handbag as though there's not a yen in it"), then pantomime the parts as he wanted them played while the notes were read in Japanese to the actors. Despite this cumbersome procedure and the actors' difficulty with naturalism, Clurman thinks that he'll have a hit when the play opens on Sept...