Word: hit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact of life to the children of West 116th Street, but in the weeks just before his death, Walt had more than his share. Earlier this month, someone dropped a brick on his head, and the wound had to be stitched. A few days later he was hit by a car, suffering scratches and bruises. A week after that, he fell from a fire escape...
...Conroy and her two daughters, Terry, 27, a Spanish teacher at the State College at Boston, and Mariann, 23, a housewife, meet at Colstone's Restaurant in The Hub. Huddled conspiratorily over their coffee, they plot the day's assault. "Terry," says Mrs. Conroy, "you hit the $6.95 dress sale. Mariann, you head directly for that special on pants suits. I'll case the men's department...
Schools in New Brunswick, N.J., hard hit by vandalism and racial turmoil, were forced to close for a day last October when Chicago's Continental Casualty Co. refused to renew coverage. Elsewhere, premium rates are rapidly inflating. Atlanta's school fire insurance costs rose from $60,000 to $200,000 last year. Nolan E. Allen, business manager of the Indianapolis school system, wonders about the reasoning behind insurance. "A company says that it wants to take care of you when there is a risk," he muses. "But when you do have a risk, it says goodbye...
...seemed destined for what Victorians frankly called "a living" in the church. Only a chance friendship with the Rev. Professor J. S. Henslow of Cambridge, a botanist, led to Darwin's recommendation as the Beagle's naturalist. Chance, plus a certain amount of charm, determined that he hit it off immediately with the Beagle's hot-tempered Captain FitzRoy, a Tory traditionalist with a fundamentalist belief in the literal truth of the Book of Genesis...
...script, and Cactus Flower is far more than that. Director Gene Saks is no Billy Wilder, but Wilder's collaborator I.A.L. Diamond (Some Like It Hot, The Apartment) is still I.A.L. Diamond, and he knows funny lines when he writes them. Ornamenting Abe Burrows' stage hit (itself an adaptation of a French farce), Diamond outfits his confident cast with a situation as pretested as a lunar mission...