Word: hit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chambers. During Curry's last four years in office, it remained stable at about $72 per $1000 assessed valuation, and was once even slightly reduced. By DeGuglielmo's second year in office, it stood at $82.50. During the last election campaign, advertisements of Crane and Danehy supporters in particular hit the rising taxes, and promised a return to the stability of the Curry years. The tax rate became one of the few City-wide issues in Cambridge political annals, and probably contributed to the defeat of the two DeGuglielmo supporters...
...heavily black areas to the south in east of Dunster House would be hardest hit by the student influx into the market. The President's Assistant for Civic and Governmental Affairs constantly receives concerned letters from Cambridge residents and politicians over student off-camplus living. The student accepts a community responsibility when he enters Harvard, just as Harvard can be said to accept a responsibility to the Cambridge community for housing the 1200 minors it invites here every fall...
...left, was a story about 500 students in Brussels taking over the university; deep inside the first section there was news of students rioting at the London School of Economics; section two told of the continuing "problem" with young radicals in Germany; the next day Brooklyn College was hit; and a week later 1000 students and faculty had taken over the main administration building at San Francisco State...
...there is some release, a pushing back, for a time, of the horizons. There is talk with one's neighbor, the compulsion to relive the moment when you were hit, to hear how it was when he was hit. The helicopter pilot tells over and over how the shattered AK-47 slug he is fondling came up through the armored floor of his chopper, ripped through his calf and embedded itself in the dashboard. As do the others, he reconstructs his adventure with the clarity of total recall-the surprise, the pain, the pleasure of having faced death...
...Theater of Lincoln Center, it displayed a repertory of 41 dances, a chiaroscuro of choreographic talent unmatched by any company in the world. A good three-quarters of the works were created by George Balanchine, 64, who uncharacteristically looked into his past by re-creating his first big Broadway hit, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, from the 1936 production On Your Toes...