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Word: hit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happen to hit the Square tonight, look around, you can't miss them. They look like George Gobel dressed up as a leprechaun, wearing their green high school jackets, blue jeans with a GREEN POWER sticker plastered on the crotch, and boots that have "kick-ass" patterned across the toe in dirt...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Calypso Singers Laugh at Them; The (Indian) Circus Is In Town | 10/25/1969 | See Source »

...second quarter Gomez and left wing Charlie Thomas momentarily exchanged positions, and the move paid off. Gomez centered a perfect pass to Thomas in front of the net. The sophomore's quick shot hit a fullback, but the rebound came straight back and Thomas banged it home...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Cross-Country, Soccer Teams Top Indians | 10/25/1969 | See Source »

...agreed to increases in Government spending and in the credit supply that his successor, Saulnier, thought were too expansionist. In early 1960, he advised Nixon, then Vice President, that federal spending should be increased and credit eased to head off a recession that he correctly warned would hit its low point shortly before Election Day. Nixon could not persuade the Eisenhower Administration to adopt the Burns program. In Six Crises, Nixon wrote that "unfortunately, Arthur Burns turned out to be a good prophet." Nixon has said in private that he would have beaten John F. Kennedy if Burns' advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: NIXON'S NEW MAESTRO OF MONEY | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...cyclamates, ordered by HEW Secretary Robert Finch last week, might hit millions of weight-watchers in the waistline, but it is a real body blow to the rich diet-food industry. In the 20 years since cyclamates were discovered, sales of products containing the nonnutritive sweeteners have risen to $1 billion annually. An estimated 21 million pounds of cyclamates will be consumed this year. The biggest manufacturer, Chicago's Abbott Laboratories, figures that cyclamates account for 4% of its sales, which were $351 million last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Crisis in the Diet Market | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

When it opened on Broadway 18 years ago, Paint Your Wagon was slowed by a static book and a production as badly in need of girls as its miners. On paper, Lerner's improved libretto-and a score with some new music by Andre Previn-seemed to hit the mother lode. But that was before the director made it a fool's Gold Rush. Lee Marvin has done what he could to give the wagon a push onscreen. But the only motion that can give this Loganized vehicle velocity is promotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Fool's Gold | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

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