Word: hit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hands Off. The disclosures hit close to the apex of federal authority at a time when all authority is under challenge. They immediately became the major topic of conversation in Washington, from the corridors of the Capitol to Georgetown cocktail parties. Fortas' friends and fellow Democrats found little to say in his defense. Republicans generally adopted the President's hands-off attitude. Richard Nixon, whose attacks on the Supreme Court's liberal cast figured prominently in his campaign, has been assiduously mending fences with the high court of late...
...Francisco and Oakland across the Bay Bridge can take 30 minutes or considerably longer in rush-hour jams. Hurtling its riders beneath San Francisco Bay through the world's longest underwater transit tube-3.6 miles-BART will make the trip in nine minutes. The BART trains will hit a top speed of 80 m.p.h. and will average 50 m.p.h., including the time taken at stops. The rides will be soothing. The new cars will have seats comparable to those in a first-class airliner compartment, cushioned and equipped with arm rests. The floors will be covered with rich brown...
...patriotic cliché emerged from a military study intended to evaluate flak vests, helmets and first-aid procedures. Using helicopters, 62 Army and Marine interviewers were able to reach 7,600 wounded men while their memories of the fighting were still fresh - often within 30 minutes after they were hit...
...seized him, West snapped: "Get your goddam hands off me." Next day Magistrate Charles J. Simpson sentenced West to 30 days in jail and a $25 fine for disorderly conduct. That came as no surprise, but the 20-year-old veteran was totally unprepared for what followed. He was hit with an additional 30-day sentence and another $25 fine for violation of Maryland's 320-year-old blasphemy law. West, the magistrate ruled, "did unlawfully use profanity by taking the Lord's name in vain in a public place...
...three months, the diggers struck a rectangular masonry shaft that began at the city level of Ahab's time (about 850 B.C.) and dropped past the debris of 13 older cities. As Yadin was removing rubble near the bottom of the shaft, "a rush of hot air hit me in the face." He had uncovered a 12-ft.-high tunnel that had been sealed since Biblical times. At its other end, 100 ft. away, Yadin saw water sparkling in the torchlights. Instead of depending on springs, Ahab's engineers had dug deep to tap the natural ground water...