Word: hitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the pasture. But the 707. torn and tossed far beyond the limits of its carefully engineered endurance, gave up. The fiery wing exploded, and the plane splashed into the Stillaguamish River. The forward section disintegrated on impact, killing Baum, Berke, Engineer Hagen and Frank Staley, The tail section hit a sandbar, and the four men inside crawled to safety...
...poets and composers hold a competition for the most romantic wedding march, and that each couple get a handsomely bound volume containing homilies by the country's leading Soviet intellectuals. He also wanted peace doves released at each ceremony. But of all the proposals Izvestia received, none hit the mark so squarely as one from Odessa. After complaining about the "colorless and dreary routine" of the registry offices, V. Runanov suggested that every city have "a special building-the best in town" just for marriages and other happy events. Last week, as if to make V. Runanov...
...raise our children. We are people, and nothing human is alien to us. Speaking frankly, comrade writers, some of your books simply make us feel sorry for you. Suppose you read a book about writers in which all attention is focused on the problem of which finger you hit the typewriter key with. Wouldn't it offend you? Then why don't you writers realize how boring it is to read books in which, instead of telling about living people, you only describe the square-cluster method of planting potatoes? We want to tell you bluntly that...
When the church softened its policy to permit "Youth Dedication" to the state, participation in these strictly secular ersatz confirmations hit an 80%-go% high last spring, and some East German congregations celebrated no Christian confirmations at all. Fewer and fewer children are signing up for the voluntary school program of religious education. Economic discrimination against Christians has not abated, and Red bureaucrats systematically hinder efforts to build new churches and repair old ones. In Saxony alone, 50 churches were condemned as unsafe since the war while the state withheld permission for repairs...
Rising expenses have hit most Ivy League colleges, a CRIMSON poll has shown. With the continually increasing costs of labor and materials, dining hall directors in these colleges all expect increased board charges in the very near future, Carle T. Tucker, director of the Harvard Dining Hall Department, predicted recently...