Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That wasn't the way Calder understood it. As soon as the news hit the wires, Calder cracked back: "I have not accepted the secretaryship of the Army today or accepted it for 60 days from now." In the ensuing confusion, Louis Johnson kept mum while Harry Truman loyally tried to straighten things out by hoping that Calder could still be persuaded. If not, the loud publicity would make it even harder to find another candidate. One trouble was that though the vacant Army and Navy secretaryships were still Cabinet posts in all but name, they were increasingly becoming...
Georgia's crafty Carl Vinson hit the roof. As chairman of the House Armed Services Committee he had been getting hotter & hotter at Johnson's methods. After a hurried visit to Johnson's office, he came back to Capitol Hill with Johnson's abject surrender in writing-and to be sure about it, read it into the record on the House floor...
...newly rich black-marketeers fling lavish parties in speakeasy restaurants for their geisha girls. Pomaded dandies and taxi-dancers foxtrot in crowded dance-halls to the melancholy strains of ikoku no oka, "the hills of a strange land"-a hit-parade lament about Japan's 400,000 strong P.W.s still held in Soviet Siberia...
Every night for the past six weeks in the London hit A Queen Came By, Actress Thora Hird had spoken these lines in fear and trembling, while a sympathetic stage manageress stood in the wings with a glass of brandy at the ready. Whenever she spoke them, said Actress Hird, the second-hand Victorian jacket she wore in the third act tightened inexplicably about her neck and invisible hands seemed to choke...
...offensive segment of the Columbia attack is led by Adam Rakowski, who set a new Lion batting mark of .467 last year. He hit safely in 24 straight games over a three-year span, until Yale stopped him Wednesday. Charlie Klemovich doesn't meet the ball often, but when he does it usually goes for long distances. He has hit two homers this season...