Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only man to make a fast buck. Another Detroiter got a bushel basket full of money in one evening, and gave away five-dollar bills as mementoes of the stirring occasion. People in Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and dozens of other U.S. cities and towns hit the jackpot too and found themselves in a delirious state of sudden solvency...
Lisa Kirk, who stops the Broadway hit, Kiss Me, Kate, every time she sings Always True to You in My Fashion, was deeply impressed by the famed calm of Composer Cole Porter: "A composer's work must be like a baby to him. Giving it to a singer must be like leaving it with a sitter. You'd think Mr. Porter would be on edge about it, but," she marveled, "he won't [even] quarrel with you about the baby's diet...
Harvey Brooks's A Little Bird Told Me was No. i on the hit parade...
...famous drawings of imaginary carceri" (prisons). Tiny tattered figures cowered beneath enormous vaults and arches; huge spiked wheels ground inexorably; stairs spiraled up the dank walls to nowhere. In a world where nightmare prisons and melancholy ruins were once more an appalling reality, Piranesi's treatment of them hit as hard as ever...
...followed by five ax-wielding minions, the woman from downstairs screamed, the two babies woke up crying in the back room and the dance instructor dropped his demitasse and fell off his chair." Tabloid readers just had to read to see what happened after the instructor and the demitasse hit the floor...