Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making expenses some way," His Majesty explains," so I wandered over to Cambridge one afternoon. There were a lot of students up in front of an office . . . paying fees and depositing valuables for safe-keeping, and I got a good look at the safe. . . I figured I could almost hit it with a can opener...
...psychologists did not attempt to cure the Faculty, however, and none of the Clinic's patients hit the headlines with axe murders. In fact, the new project's combination of therapy, teaching, and research turned out to be a very good one. The students made willing and interested guinea pigs, and the patients--sent to the Clinic by other agencies; the Clinic takes none directly--got the benefit of the staff's newest researches. The Clinic has built up a considerable reputation for its work, which ranged from research in hypnotism to experiments in the psychology of jokes. Since...
...oral autobiography, Mr. Cohen did hit upon one name which the Provost admitted had been mentioned in the informant's report. It was John Marsalka, former assistant professor of history at Yale and a Wallsee party candidate for Congress. Mr. Cohen admits having conversations with Mr. Marsalka, but says they disagreed on many political policies...
Died. Thomas O. Heggen, 29, Iowa-born Navy veteran who turned his wartime experience in the Pacific into the bestselling (more than 850,000 copies) novel Mister Roberts, collaborated with Joshua (South Pacific) Logan to turn it into a Broadway smash hit; by drowning in his bathtub after taking sleeping pills; in Manhattan...
...bring his 15-year-old "bride" into their house: "I didn't think it would last." In Toledo, a housewife tried to explain her motive for clouting her husband over he head: "I was frying eggs and all of a sudden I wondered what would happen if I hit my husband with the skillet . . ." In Hollywood, Beverly Mitchell got a divorce after she charged that her husband left her alone with the company and went off to his room to play with his electric trains...